Cambridge - Concord - Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, June 29, 1915 Wea [Weather]
 85 [degrees] Fine
Clear & very warm with light
westerly breeze. According to evening
papers the hottest day of the year this far.
  In Garden: Robins (1 [in full song], 5 on lawn,
1 young bird came down house chimney
with C's [Caroline Brewster's] fire place); Grackle (2 on lawn)
Flicker (1); Downy W. [Downy Woodpecker] ([female] ad [adult] i very
ragged plumage hopping about on ground
under spray of hose); Swift (3 [in a flock]
flying high at evening; House
Sparrows (15 + mostly young)
  Leaving Museum at 10.30 Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] & I 
motored to Concord via Waverley & E. Lex. [East Lexington]
In pond hole new Peacock woman's house
saw adult Bittern leg deep in water.
Several Red-Wings [Red-winged Blackbird] there. House wren near
Reached Farm at 11.40. Paid off
George & Burbank. Walked to 
Birch field after luncheon. Hermit [Hermit Thrush]
clucking there.  Some oaks in run
stripped by "gyps." [gypsy moth] but woods mostly intact
Started back at 3.36 & reached house
at 4.46. Read to C. [Caroline Brewster] & played Victrola
in evening . E.R.S [Elizabeth R. Simmons] gone to Williamstown.

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, June 30, 1915 Wea [Weather]
Fair
Partly sunny, largely cloudy, very
warm & humid with light southerly breeze.
  In Garden:  A Flicker, several
Robins (5 or 6); a Grackle (on lawn)
very many House Sparrows, Swift
(heard at evening)
  Spent most of day in Museum
writing letters & cheques for bills.
Packed trunk & portmanteau, in
late P.M, with Gilbert's [Robert A. Gilbert] help, for
trip to Glendale.
  C. [Caroline Brewster] & I dined on back piazza with
Alice Bartlett, Vera Keith-Kopp & 
Mrs. Towle (of Andover) as guests.
Alice left early but the others
stayed until past 4 P.M. We
took them through the Garden &
I showed them the Museum.
  C. & I spent the evening in hall
trying a lot of new records only two
of which are worth keeping.