and Great Tits passed over us, about 30 birds
in all, a merry company moving very
rapidly through the trees like our
mixed flocks in autumn. Once a
Raven flew over us high in air, croaking
hoarsely. A few Rooks, all single birds,
were flitting about the shore. Every
now & then a small flock of mallards
passed high over the Loch.
  At 2 P.M. started for the hotel. The
walk back through the Glen was
charming. Ben Venue alternately bathed
in sunlight & darkened with shadows.
Trees along road birches (weeping with minute
leaves) oaks, holly, willows, a few aspens
& Scotch pines. Sweet gale in every marshy 
hollow. Three kinds of purple heather.
Three Mallards flying from Lake with oats.
In P.M. rowed around Loch Achray with E. [Elizabeth].
Wagtails (Pied & Gray) swarming on pebbly
shores. Four young Goosanders near middle.
One Mallard. No Sandpipers. Swallow & 
Martins about house.
The Trossachs.
Aug 31. Cloudy; began raining about 11 A.M.
and poured remainder of dat. Little wind.
  Spent day in house writing. After
dinner walked through Trossachs Glen
with E. R. S. (Fuller entries in Journal.)
Sep 1. A really terrific storm raging
all last night and to-day. Rain
pouring in torrents, wind blowing a gale
Barometer down to 28.7[.]
  Spent day in house writing & reading
aloud. Walk late in P.M. down road
to woods & back. Three Mallards scaling
about finally dropping in oat fields. 
Flock of Chaffinches feeding on
horse droppings in road.