Glendale, [Mass.]
Ther. [Thermometer] WED. AUG. 30, 1911 [Wednesday, August 30, 1911] Wea [Weather]
Dull.
Partly sunny, chiefly cloudy. Calm & cool.
Spent forenoon in studio writing letters.
Mr. Seeley, an amateur local ornithologist
& a semi- professional, artististic [artistic] photographer
called soon after lunch to see me. He
told me that the Duck Hawks ceased to
breed on Monument Mt. [Monument Mountain] about 8 years ago
when both birds were shot, that Bitterns
& Green Herons bred regularly along the river
in Stockbridge; that a pair of Chats [?] have
bred twice within the past [four?] years.
At 4 P.M. we took a walk through
[?] pine woods across the road. At
first they seemed everywhere silent &
lifeless but on reaching the outlook towards
the south we found a large flock (50+) of
Cedar Birds [cedar waxwings] in a dead oak fly catching, &
during the next hour I saw there a rather
unusual number & variety of birds. A flock of
Warblers included 4 Blackburnians, 1 Usnea,
1 Black thr. Green [black-throated green warbler], 1 ad. [adult] [male] Redstart. We heard
Jays, a Hairy W. [Hairy Woodpecker], a Nuthatch, a Red eye [red-eyed vireo],
Chickadees, a Kingfisher. 4 Swifts flying
about. A fine Fish Hawk passed over us
flying [?] south over river about 100
yds. [100 yards] in air. On way back saw a Field Sp. [Field Sparrow]
a Nashville Warbler, a Barn Swallow &
a Night Hawk. Heard a Wood Pewee near 
house. Dan continues to gain but is
still confined to house
Glendale.
Ther. [Thermometer] THURS. AUG. 31, 1911 [Thursday, August 31, 1911] Wea [Weather]
Stormy
North-east rain storms, with gloomy
skies, chill air & moderate wind.
  Spent forenoon in studio working
on journal, writing for it several pages
relating to my experience in England
last month. Dan began another
oil painting of me after luncheon
working on it over two hours during
which I sat immovable in a
chair in his den. I found it very
tedious as he will not talk much
and I got sleepy from having to
fix my eyes on one point all the time.
George Keyes and his wife arrived
just before dinner. He comes to
play in a tennis tournament in 
Stockbridge to-morrow. We sat in
parlor talking all evening. Saw 
four Swifts flying high at sunset.

