Glendale
Ther [Thermometer] WED. [Wednesday] AUG. [August] 6, 1913 Wea [Weather]
Dull
Cloudy & sultry with light
showers through day and heavy
rain after dark.
  Chippies [Chipping Sparrows] & Red-eyes [Red-eyed vireos] still singing.
Heard a Magnolia Warbler first chirp
repeatedly and then sing several times.
Barn Swallows passing southward
in straggling flights in mid & late
afternoon. At least 25 seen in all.
Spent most of afternoon with Dan
in the pasture where he & his men
were preparing the ground in front of
the newly erected [?] for two big
stone slabs to form a terrace. They
were hauled to the place & set later
(next day). At 7.50 we motored to
Stockbridge with Mrs. French to dine
with Mr. & the Misses Colsart & with the
Crowingshields [Crowinshields]. It rained heavily there.
Glendale
Ther [Thermometer] THURS. AUG. 7, 1913 [Thursday, August 7, 1913] Wea [Weather]
Mixed
Largely cloudy, partly sunny;
sultry with fresh S.W. [southwest] wind.
  A Robin singing feebly & fitfully
in early morn [morning], Chippins [Chipping Sparrows] & a Red-eye [Red-eyed Vireo]
later in day. Swifts still feeding
young in Studio chimney. Two
House Wrens - if not three - among
flowers in garden. Goldfinch in full
song.  Red Squirrels raiding [Grant?]
apples but eating only the seeds.
Wood Pewee & Least Flycatcher singing
a little in larch swamp. Two Wens [Wrens] 
in studio flower garden.
  Spent much of day in room
reading & writing (letters). To the
pasture several times. The men 
hauled the stone slabs & put them 
in place there. Margaret, Dorothy
Darrow, Fletcher & Reed around yesterday.