Cambridge - Concord.
Deer tracks both fresh & old in Cedar Park.
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, Aug. 22, 1915 [August 22, 1915] Wea [Weather]
Another excessive rainfall Foul
  Forenoon partly sunny, mostly cloudy,
with violent S.W. [southwest] wind. Raining most
of afternoon & much of evening, at
times very heavily, in rapidly
succeeding showers of very unusual 
violence but without thunder or lightning.
Rather warm & very humid all day.
  Walked through Garden & Jungle
just after breakfast. Three adult Robins
only birds noted there.
  Leaving home at 8.45 A.M. motored
to Concord with Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] via Watertown,
Waverley, E. Lexington [East Lexington], Lexington &
Bedford. Almost the only birds seen
were a few Swifts & Barn Swallows.
Chickory [chicory]  in fullest bloom making
a superb show in places. Much golden
rod, also. Village gardens ablaze with
flowers especially phlox & golden glow.
Zinnia bed at Farm simply dazzling.
Walked with "Tim" to Birch Field in P.M.
returning drenched by sudden shower.
Almost no birds. Noticed only a Song Sparrow,
a Swift & a Barn Swallow. 

Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Aug. 23, 1915 [August 23, 1915] Wea [weather]
Mosquitos. Wrens move young. Fine
  Clear with light westerly wind, failing
at times. Oppressively warm & humid.
  Mosquitos quite as numerous as I have
ever known them at Lake Umbagog, rising
literally in clouds wherever one enters
thickets of bushes or tall woods in low places.
  Birds of every kind uncommonly scarce.
Local breeding ones mostly gone, apparently,
& not as yet replaced by migrants from
further north. Three Robins in orchard,
2 Song Sparrows, a Chippy [Chipping Sparrow], several
Bluebirds (heard) & Bobolinks (heard)
2 Flickers, 9 [in a flock] Barn Swallows (flying S.W. [southwest] ),
several Jays & Crows (heard) and a
brood of House Wrens, a [female] D. virens [Dendroica virens] &
a Maryland Yellow thr. [Maryland Yellowthroat] were all I noted.
  From June 11 to 25 the Wrens breeding in front
of our house were feeding young in box near old 
well. On August 10 they were feeding their second
brood in box 50 yds. to E. [east] near catalapa [catalpa].
To day they were feeding them in a box near
well but not the one in which the first brood 
was reared. The young chattered today
much as on the 10th. They must have 
been moved from one box to the other since then.
Spent most of day working in flower
gardens with Burbank & George. Walked 
to the Berry Pasture in late P.M. Sarah Ames,
William & a Mr. Rolfe called at 11 A.M.