Oxford
Ther. [Thermometer] WED. [Wednesday] JULY 5, 1911 Wea. [Weather]
83 [degrees] Red letter day Fine
Brilliantly clear with light W. [west] wind. Very warm.
Awoke at day break to hear a Wren, a Robin
a Blackbird & 2 Thrushes singing at the rear of
our house. Spent forenoon with C. [Caroline Brewster] & E. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] seeing
colleges. Visited Merton, Corpus Christi,
Oriel, Brasenose & Wanhem [Wadham]. Had finest
of bird music in several college gardens. Robins
Thrushes & one superb Blackbird whose song
seemed to me the most beautiful bird music I
ever heard. Stock Dove cooing (deep / coo, coo,
coo) & Lark singing in Christ Church meadow
Back at 1. Started off at 3 in auto. with
C. & E. Went to Dorchester & Saw abbey for
2nd time. Heard several Skylarks, many
Yellow Hammers & 1 plain, drab Finch on
tel. wire [telephone wire] with their skittering song new to me
Back at 6.  Off at one again to Tim's
Got barge & rowed C. & E. down to rollers
where we sat in boat 2 hours & had our
pic-nic tea. Wonderful bird concert in trees
& thicket over & about us. 2 Thrushes, 1
Blackbird 2 Robins at least 3 [?]. Home
at 4 P.M.
[margin]Saw Corn Bunting & Cirl Bunting & heard both. Very feeble songs[/margin]

Oxford
Ther. [Thermometer] THURS. [Thursday] JULY 6, 1911 Wea. [Weather]
85 [degrees] Fine
Sunny but hazy. Very warm with little
or no wind. Altogether a perfect midsummer day.
     Spent forenoon in house reading & writing.
At 5 P.M. drove in cab to Worcester College
grounds to see a beautiful pageant in which
over 200 persons, mostly children, took part.
There were fairies, early Britons, Druids,
Kings, Queens, Knights in armor etc. The 
dancing of the fairy children was especially
charming. A large & very typically English audience
filled the benches; Wood Pigeons Swifts &
Swallows were incessantly flying over us
or about the pretty tree-embowered lake
that formed the background to the attractive
scene. Wrens & Thrushes in the trees.
Altogether I have never seen anything more
attractive. George J. & a Mr. Donald called
this evening.  One Thrush sang at morning &
evening on the roof of St. Giles I heard no
other birds near our house.