Concord - Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, July 13, 1914 Wea [Weather]
Ruthven Deane here Fine
Clear. Forenoon calm & hot; afternoon
with cool easterly breeze.
  Spent forenoon at Farm working
with Burbank & Zeph on flower beds
near house. Also went (at 9 A.M.) to
Birch Field with Geo. Baker to inspect
some work he has been doing on 
road there. Hermit Thrush in full
song not far from Pulpit Rock.
Many other birds singing freely as well
especially Robins, Catbirds & Song
Sparrows. Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert]  & Zeph picked a lot
of raspberries, thimble berries, blueberries
& mulberries to take to Cambridge.
We left Farm at 3.25 P.M. in
the Ford car & motored to Cambridge
via Concord, Bedford, Lexington &
Rock Meadow. Saw upwards of 25
Barn Swallows on tel wire telephone wire] near Rudolph Peterson's
as many more at Minister Hutchins & at
least 50 Bank Swallows at Flint's bridge.
Home by 4.45. Ruthven Deane dined
with C. & me on our back piazza at 7 &
stayed until 10. He gore to Scarboro
to-morrow.
Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, July 14, 1914 Wea [Weather]
Work on Umbagog resumed Fine
Clear & just pleasantly cool.
  Robin & Red-eye [Red-eyed Vireo] singing freely through
day in the Garden. Only a few Bronzed
Grackles & House Sparrows, the cherry
crop having been mostly depleted by then.
Saw a Blue Jay eat a large white
heart cherry. He managed it in
characteristic Jay fashion holding it half
 near his front on a short branch & pecking 
at it as if it were an acorn. Altogether
he made at least half a dozen "bites"
of it. He was a young bird doubtless
one of the brood that Percy saw just out
of the nest on June 12. Apparently
the Jays have nested here a second time
since then for on the morning of July 11
Percy brought me a young one almost fully
grown but only half fledged which he had
just found dead on one front walk. It
was quite fresh & must have fallen from
a nest in one of the big lindens.
  Spent day in Museum. Resumed work
in forenoon on unfinished Gr. Horned Owl [Great Horned Owl]
story for Umbagog book. Phonograph
for C. [Caroline Brewster] put out this P.M. We heard records
all the evening.