South Yarmouth.
Ther [Thermometer]  FRI. AUG. 22, 1913 [Friday, August 22, 1913]  Wea [Weather]
Fine
  Clear & warmer with strong S.W. [southwest] 
wind rising almost to gale at evening.
Flicker shouting in early morning.
Spent most of forenoon in house writing
letters & talking. While on wharf at noon,
watching bathers, saw a Green Heron & 2
Bitterns flying over marsh & a Kingfisher
on stalk. Started for Jaynes [James] & Long Ponds
at 4 P.M. with the Stones & Knowlton.
On way thither found a lazy & flourishing
colony of Ant Lions. Their pits nearly touched
one another & extended for about 50 yds. [50 yards]
along the face of a sloping, sandy bank.
Only a Kingfisher at Jayne's Pond [James Pond]. Its
shores brilliant with beds of Rhexia in
full bloom intermingling with Coreopsis rosea
not [?] part & a [?] [?] plant with
small orchid-like white flowers (very pretty)
At Long Pond we saw an Osprey & a 
Great Blue Heron on wing, and in this tree
two Wood Pewees & a family of D. virens
the young still in first pl. [plumage?]  Big green locusts
shrilling incessantly everywhere near river at evening.
South Yarmouth.
Ther [Thermometer]  SAT. AUG. 23, 1913 [Saturday, August 23, 1913]  Wea [Weather]
Stormy
Raining heavily most of A.M. Clearing
in late P.M. warm with strong S.W. [southwest] wind.
  Spent forenoon in house reading & talking.
Went over to the Davis' after dinner to
hear [heard] their phonograph played for an
hour or more. Started for Swan Pond
at 4 P.M. It is as attractive as ever.
We found 2 young Wilson's Terns near
the fish house, one playing with what
like a cricket or small grasshopper,
mounting upward to drop & [receive?] it
before it reached the water by a swift
downward swoop, this oft repeated. Both
birds very tame & walking on beach near us
much of time. Saw also 2 Least Terns
fishing in pond, a Great Blue Heron flying
over it, 2 Spotted Sandpipers & a Kingfisher
on its shores. Knowlton stung by a paper wasp
I nearly sat on the nest in bow of boat.
Woods almost lifeless. 15 Chickadees (seen
on this [?] [margin] at 9 P.M. went to the Turkey trot 
dancing in [?] - a vulgar spectacle.