Concord - Cambridge.
Mysterious scarcity of female Gypsy Moths
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, July 27, 1914 Wea [Weather]
Chipmunk at Farm Fine
Clear with cool north-west wind.
  Robins, Wrens, Song Sparrow & Towhee singing
through greater part of day. Chippy [Chipping Sparrow]
& Redstart singing a little in P.M.
  Spent most of day at the Farm. We
began on a new poultry yard for
the young roosters and worked on it
all forenoon. After dinner the men
helped Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] pick berries & I weeded
some of the flower beds.
  Saw a Chipmunk in a stone wall
near the house this morning. It is
the first & only one I have noted on
the Farm this year. A young Red Squirrel
was in the red pines near Ritchie place
when I passed there yesterday.
  A strange thing seems to have happened
to the Gypsy Moths. Lots of males are on
wing but we can find almost no females.
Melvin says Prof Norton reports them very scarce.
  Leaving the Farm at 5.15 Gilbert & I
returned to Cambridge in the Ford.
Mrs. Cobb & Lizzy Fuller supped with C. [Caroline Brewster] & me.

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, July 28, 1914 Wea [Weather]
Stormy.
Light rain falling all day without
wetting things much. Very cool.
We had open fire lighted this eve.
  A Robin & a Red-eye [Red-eyed Vireo] singing
fitfully and listlessly. No other
birds save a few Sparrows noted
about our place. No south-bound
migrants noticed here as yet
although I heard the chirp of one,
doubtless a Warbler, that was passing
over the Farm at Concord at 10.30
P.M. on July 26. Never before within
my recollection perhaps have summer
resident birds been so scarce in our
grounds at this season. Probably the
only ones that bred this year were
Robins, Red-eyes [Red-eyed Vireo] & Blue Jays. Red-eyes [Red-eyed Vireo]
& Goldfinches are apparently the
only birds smaller than Robins that
continue to breed in our neighborhood.
  Worked all day on Gr. H. Owl [Great Horned Owl] story
Rewrote one page which C. [Caroline Brewster- had copied &
tried in vain to compose another. Very
discouraging. Mary Allen, Margaret Gage &
the Cobb.Fullers at dinner & the last at supper also.