Glendale
Ther [Thermometer] MON. AUG. 4, 1913 [Monday, August 4-5, 1913] Wea [Weather]
Fine
Sunny & cool with fresh northerly
winds. Robins sang only a little
soon after daybreak & then but listlessly
Red-eyes [Red-eyed Vireos] & Chippins [Chipping Sparrows] kept at it this
forenoon without much spirit.
Song Sparrows almost wholly silent.
A Field Sparrow in almost full &
rather frequent song in late P.M.
when I also heard a Black & White
Creeper once & an Indigo Bird [Indigo Bunting] several
times. For the Hermit [Hermit Thrush] I listened
in vain this evening.
  For three days past I have been
working at a stubborn passage in
my Introduction without bringing it
out as I wish. To-day's work on
it proved fruitless & so exhausting
that I was glad to walk over to
Mackintoshes for a chat in late P.M.
After dinner this evening Mrs. F. [French] read
to me a capital but gruesome story she had [margin] written.[/margin]
Glendale
Ther [Thermometer] TUES. [Tuesday] AUG. [August] 5, 1913 Wea [Weather]
Fine
Sunny but hazy. Very cool with light
north wind.
  Bird song declining rapidly now.
Robins severely silent for first time.
Chippies [Chipping sparrows] and Red-eyes [Red-eyed vireos] singing listlessly
at all hours. Heard a Song Sparrow
& an Indigo Bird [Indigo Bunting] a few times.
Swifts gathering in rather large numbers
in late P.M. over Lee village. A pair still
feeding young in nest in Dan's studio chimney.
A solitary Meadow Lark [Meadowlark] seen by Mr. [?]
on his lawn & out by me in Lee.
  Devoted most of A.M. & early P.M. to
the balky paragraph in Intro [Introduction] finishing it
to my satisfaction at last.
  Mrs. F. [Mrs. French] & I motored to Lenox in late P.M.
to lawn party given by Miss [?]
for Lady [blank space] Hutchinson & her daughter.
Wonderful flower gardens there. Walked
through them with Miss Myer & a young
"bird girl" Miss McNulty. Back to
Stockbridge at 7.20 to meet Dan [?]
from New York.