Cambridge - Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, July 11, 1914 Wea [Weather]
Fine
Sunny hot & humid with light
southerly winds. Heavy thunder shower
at evening (7.30-8.30)
  Spent forenoon in Museum writing
letters. Dined with C. [Caroline Brewster] on back piazza
at 1 and went to Boston at 2 to take
2.40 train for Concord where Gilbert
met me, having motored up from
Cambridge. Reached the Farm about 4
and strolled about it until supper
time (7 P.M.). Everything fresh &
green after recent copious rain.
Plenty of ripe raspberries, thimbleberries,
currants & gooseberries. Blueberries just
coming on. 
  Birds singing rather freely in late
P.M. Robin, Cat-bird, House Wren,
Red-eyes [Red-eyed Vireo] Song Sparrows, Ovenbird,
Towhee & Maryland Yellow-throat
in full song. Red-eye [Red-eyed Vireo] feeding young
Cow-bird in orchard. Two Eave
Swallows flying low past house
uttering the krur call.

Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, July 12, 1914 Wea [Weather]
Fine
  Clear & warm & very humid with
light west wind. Heavy th. [thunder] shower 5-5.30 P.M.

  Birds singing freely & delightfully
all day long but most so at morn &
eve. Rarely have I heard them to such
good advantage this late in summer.
Robins, Catbirds, Vireos, Song Sparrows,
Tanagers, Vesper Sparrows, Indigo bird,
all at their best. Hermit Thrush in
Birch Field in full song 9-10 A.M.
& again at sunset. Veery singing
well at 9 A.M. Warblers mostly 
silent or nearly so but one Blackburnian
& three Black-throated Greens in full
song in early forenoon.
  Walked to Birch Field & Prescott pines
after breakfast and strolled about 
Farm in late P.M. after the
heavy shower had passed. During
its height the rain fell in sheets
& flooded hollows in fields.
Gypsy caterpillars spinning cocoons.
Saw 2 Brown Tail moths.