South Yarmouth - Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, Aug. 20, 1915 [August 20, 1915] Wea [Weather]
Fine
  Sunny but hazy. Warm with light
southerly breeze.
  Left S. [south] Yarmouth by 9.50 Train. Collins
took me to station in light spring wagon
drawn by quiet, free-gaited horse - altogether
a delightful experience because now so rare.
While journeying towards Boston I looked
out of car window most of time. Saw
very many Kingbirds & Swallows flying over
Barnstable Marshes & Meadow Larks rising
commonly from grassy fields. Terns
constantly in sight over Cape Cod Canal as we
skirted it. At its western end they literally
swarmed many perching in rows, like Swallows,
on its bordering telegraph wires. Upward of 300
seen in all. Several Laughing Gulls with them.
Oak woods very generally ravaged by Gypsy
larvae all way from S. Yarmouth [South Yarmouth] to Brockton.
Trees thinly foliaged with new, light green leaves.
Reached Boston at 12.30. Called at office
& saw Arthur [Arthur Estabrook] & Darling. Lunched at Marston's
Home by 2.30. Found 10+ Robins, 3 young
Orioles in full aut. plumage [autumn plumage], a Water Thrush
& a Flicker in Garden. Heard Swifts.
Tree Crickets in nearly full chorus at eve.
Wrote letters until dark. Supped alone on
back piazza. Called on Lizzy Fuller later.

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, Aug. 21, 1915 [August 21, 1915] Wea [Weather]
Fair
Sunny but densely hazy. Comfortably
cool with light easterly wind.
  In Garden at 9 A.M.: Six or eight
Robins, five Jays, at least two young
Orioles (in tall locusts), a Red-eye [Red-eyed Vireo]
(singing feebly), a Flicker, a Downy [Downy Woodpecker]
(heard only), a Grackle & a few
House Sparrows. Also an ad. [adult male] Goldfinch
among the sunflowers. At evening at
least ten Swifts were careering about
low overhead. Early in forenoon heard
Warblers chirping in Jundle & got a
glympse of one chasing a another on wing
but failed to identify either bird.
  It was pleasing to hear Cicadas
frying through the midday hours at
intervals & Tree Crickets fiddling after
dark. Mosquitos continue to swarm
out of doors but no longer trouble us
much in the house.
  Spent entire day in Museum
writing letters. Had breakfast & luncheon
along on back piazza, dinner at 6.30 with
the Cobb-Fullers, spending evening there.