Glendale
Ther [Thermometer]  THURS. JULY 17, 1913 [Thursday, July 17, 1913] Wea [Weather]
Fair
  Partly cloudy, largely sunny. Warm
again with fresh S.W.[southwest] wind.
  Spent day in my room
writing, working chiefly on the
Concord bird notes. Family 
busied in preparations for the
silver wedding dinner to-night.
At 6 P.M. I went to tennis court
where Dan & Mayhew were
playing and sat there for half
an hour, during which, in trees
near at hand, two Wood Thrushes
sang ceaselessly. One, a superb vivid
bird has several notes very like those
of English Blackbird; [?] (7.10) the
Barred Owls are hooting. I hear two
as I sit by my open windows. Their
outcry carries me back in thought to
the [S?] River trip.
Beautiful & inspiring [?] 8-9.30
Joseph Choate made happy speech. 14 at table.   
[margin] 2 Barred Owls hooting & [?] behind studio at 7 P.M. [/margin] 
Glendale.
Ther [Thermometer]  FRI. JULY 18, 1913 [Friday, July 18, 1913]  Wea
Fair
Forenoon cloudy with light shower.
Afternoon clear & warm.
  Spent most of day in room
working on Concord notes. Mrs F's
afternoon tea in studio 4-6.
Only six guests came. Superb
concert of Wood Thrushes 6-7. Two
Robins in full song in early morn [morning].
Chippins [Chipping Sparrows], Field Sparrow & Indigo B.[Indigo Bunting]
singing all day. As we were
sitting in parlor at 8 P.M. heard
the distant hooting of a Great
Horned Owl. Dan & I started out
at once. Bird in pine woods across
road to S.W. [southwest]. He stopped before we 
had gone far. A little later his
expressive sonorous voice came
many times from mountain crest.
He eventually said hoo, hoo-hoo, hoo, hoo
Barred Owl's silent to-day.