Glendale
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, June 11, 1914 Wea [Weather]
80 [degrees] Fine
Brilliantly clear with high northerly wind.
Shifting to S.W. [southwest] in afternoon.
Writing letters all forenoon & early afternoon.
At 3.30 P.M. went with Dan to woods
near pasture when we made a "beauty spot",
as he called it, by enlarging & clearing up
a little glade overarched by big forest trees.
An Oven Bird seemed much disturbed by
these operations & finally we found her nest
under a tiny hemlock near where we 
had been working. It held 5 young.
  The bird music here is unusually rich
& varied & a source of very great pleasure to me.
Practically every species of summer bird which
one might expect to find in such a locality is
present within hearing of the house but most of
the species are represented by only a single pair
each. Thus with birds as plants there is great
variety of species but no great number of individuals.
A Whippoorwill sang all night long. Saw first
Fireflies this evening. Only a few Mosquitoes.
Mrs. Schoomaker [Dorothy Schoonmaker] & her daughter Louise [Louise Schoonmaker] came
this afternoon. We spent evening in studio
listening to phonograph records.
Glendale
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, June 12, 1914 Wea [Weather]
Fine
Brilliantly clear & comfortably warm with
fresh S.E. [southeast] wind.
Writing up Concord notes all
forenoon & part of afternoon in my
chamber where I have a convenient 
table by the window looking out over
the back lawn to the woods & mountain.
Prentiss French, Will's younger son,
arrived from Williamstown at 4 P.M.
& went to walk with Dan & me. We
took him first to the Oven bird's nest
& then to the Veery's, after which we
visited the Knight farm & lay in the
grass on the hilltop until almost sunset.
Many birds singing among them a 
Field Sparrow, Vesper Sparrow (with only
one opening peer note like all its Berkshire
kindred) Tanager, Veery & a Hermit
on the mountain ridge. Dan & I
remembered that it was just fifty years
ago (in April 1864) that we heard our
first Field Sparrow (in Belmont.). He & I
spent evening with phonograph in Studio.