Manchester-By-the-Sea.
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, June 21, 1914 Wea [Weather]
Visit at the Danas' Fair
Sunny but hazy with thin veil of
clouds drifting across sky. Fresh southerly
wind. Comfortably cool.
  With Richard & Edith Dana I attended
service in a pretty little Episopal [Episcopal] chapel
beyond Manchester village 10.30-12.
A young clergyman preached a fine sermon.
Near the chapel stands a wonderfully
large & symmetrically spreading red oak.
Motored over & back in a Ford car.
After lunch we all sat for a while on a
bench on the lawn. Mrs. Edmund Dana with
us. Without her we had a rather long
motor ride in early afternoon passing
through Essex village & the beautiful Essex
woods. When nearly home Richard & I
left the car to visit a nearby woodland
pool where we started 2 Night Herons
from trees. After that kept on to the
Gardiner Lane place, where we met
Mr. & Mrs. Lane in the flower garden.
In beauty & interest it surpasses any I
have ever seen elsewhere. Spent evening by
parlor fire talking. The Dana's woods
almost barren of bird life.

Manchester - Boston - Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, June 22, 1914 Wea [Weather]
Fine
Sunny with fresh, and southerly breeze.
With both Mr. & Mrs. Dana I motored to
station at 9 A.M. & took 9.15 train
to Boston with Mrs. Dana. At North
Station we met her son Edmund.
I left them there & went to our office
for an hour. Reached Cambridge at noon
& started for Concord in Ford car at
1 reaching there at 2 & dining at
Colonial Inn. Got to Farm about 3.
Spent remainder of afternoon strolling
about near house. Birds singing
freely. They seemed innumerable after
the experience at Manchester yesterday
& the day before. In the twenty or
more acres of Dana woodland I
noted in all less than a dozen birds.
Those were 1 Robin, 1 Song Sparrow,
2 Red-eyes [Red-eyed Vireo], 1 Oven bird, 1 Pine
Warbler, 2 Black-throated Greens [Black-throated Green Warbler],
1 Maryland Yellow-throat, 1 Indigo
Bird. In several portions of these
woods no bird voice was once heard.
Everywhere also in Manchester birds
seemed very scarce.