Concord
Ther. [Thermometer] Sun. [Sunday] July 31, 1910 Wea. [Weather]
Perfect.
Brilliantly clear with fresh N.W. [Northwest]
wind. Just comfortably cool & very dry.
  Purdie & I paddled down river
to Carlisle bridge & sailed back, in
forenoon. Pickerel weed at its best
& just outside it a broad belt of
water lilies as far as eye could 
reach. They scented the air perceptibly. 
Three Hawks soaring together
looked like Broad-wings. Two Great Blue 
Herons flapping & soaring opp. [opposite] Ball's Hill.
In afternoon walked to Farm via
Davis Hill. A brood of squealing
young Sharp-shin Hawks in Prescotts'
pines. Found nest with wings of Sparrows
& Warblers under it. J.C. Melvin met
us at farm & spent an hour or more.
After that went to Berry Pasture & feasted
on blueberries. Big crop this year. Towhee,
Song Sparrow, Field Sparrow & Indigo Bird
in full song. Back by way of Holden Hill,
reaching cabin at 7.30. Very few birds
on river meadows to-day.

Concord - Cambridge.
Ther. [Thermometer] Mon. [Monday] Aug. 1, 1910 [August 1, 1910] Wea. [Weather]
(First Water Thrush & Tree Cricket) Fine
Clear & cool with light W. [west] wind.
It was a divinely beautiful morning
when Purdie & I crossed the river
stopping by the way to gather a few
water lilies. He returned to the city
by electrics, I took the 8.14 train.
reaching home at 9.20 and getting
to work at once on my writing.
  Kept at it all day hammering out
a page or two of manuscript for
the introduction. C. [Caroline Brewster] worked all
the forenoon. Gilbert stayed at
Concord to entertain a party of our
maids whom C. sent up there.
C. & I made a short call on Joe
Russell after supper. She & E. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] read
aloud in the hall after our return.
A Water Thrush chirping in the Garden
this forenoon, a Tree Cricket in
our lindens this evening. The Cricket
began last night C. says.