Glendale.
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, July 25, 1915 Wea [Weather]
Fine
Clear and warm with light S.W. [southwest] wind.
Too cool to sit out after dark, however, as it
has been almost every evening thus far here.
  Red-eyes [Red-eyed Vireo] & Chippies [Chipping Sparrow] singing ceaselessly through
day; Robins freely in mid afternoon; Tanager,
House Wren, and Wood Thrush at sunset, when
two Song Sparrows were also in full song in a
meadow near Sneir's. Swifts continue to
increase. I must have seen 25 at evening &
there were 12 in one flock. Crows at evening
hour in nearly mown field near house. 24 of
them together there this afternoon & in their
midst a big Woodchuck. Where are the
Goldfinches that should be singing freely now.
I neither see nor hear them often. Cicadas
also scarce. Have heard only two thus far.
  Spent forenoon in room writing letters,
afternoon on piazza & tennis court chatting
with Renshaw, Sturgis & Albert Fletcher.
At 6.30 P.M. Dan [Daniel Chester French] & I walked down road
to call on the Bowkers. They have beautiful
rose-salmon dahlias in proper bloom.
Evening spent in parlor talking.

Glendale
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, July 26, 1915 Wea [Weather]
Mixed.
Early morning sunny, forenoon
cloudy, raining most of afternoon,
at times heavily. Comfortably cool
with little or no wind.
  Bird music lessening fast now in
volume and variety as well as in
quality. Chippies [Chipping Sparrow] and Red-eyes [Red-eyed Vireo] sang
only in forenoon and then but listlessly
& interruptedly, as did a Robin, also.
In afternoon I heard only the happy
twittering of Swifts and the distant
calling of a Black-billed Cuckoo.
No more than 7 or 8 Crows appeared in
our field to-day. These repeatedly flew to
a large, flat-topped boulder by the
roadside where they clustered close together
and flapped or waved their wings like
so many Butterflies cawing & uttering
various odd chuckling & clucking sounds the while.
  I spent most of day in room, writing.
Dan [Daniel Chester French] at work in hillside studio. The
Renshaws departed by 2 P.M. train.