Cambridge - Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, Aug. 16, 1914 [August 16, 1914] Wea [Weather]
Deer seen at Farm Fine
Brilliantly clear with fresh,
cool north-west wind.
  Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] & I started for Concord
at 10.46 and reached the Farm
at 11.49. Went via Waverley,
Trapelo Road, Lexington, & Bedford.
Not many birds by waysides.
Heard a Goldfinch & a Song Sparrow
in full song. About a dozen Barn Swallows
on wing near old Flag place. 2 Kingbirds
& a Bluebird on telegraph wires.
  Strolling into orchard just after reaching
farm house I happened on a big doe.
She started in millett within 20 yards
& bound off.
  Jim Melvin took me to Sleepy Hollow
after dinner. We spent upward of an
hour there. He is extending wall by Memorial.
Wood Pewee singing listlessly in oaks.
  Walked at evening (6 - 7) with George
to Birch Field to inspect new roadway.
Mniotilta singing & unseen Warblers chirping.
Robin in full song near house.
No autumn Crickets here to-night.

Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Aug. 17, 1914 [August 17, 1914] Wea [Weather]
Dull.
Cloudy for the most part & also very
hazy. Rather warm & humid. Heavy
thunder shower 5 to 5.30 P.M. but
we got only the edge of it, the
bulk passing to the south & east.
  Comparatively few birds seen or 
heard. A flock of 9 Bobolinks passed
N. [north] over house at 7 A.M. Others heard
later. Mniotilta sang once (full song)
in Birch Field at 9 A.M. & an Oven bird
gave full flight song near house at
6 P.M. Everything else songless.
  A Rose-br. Grosbeak [Rose-breasted Grosbeak], [female] or young, in 
apple tree behind house. Three adult
Goldfinches ([male] [2 females]) on sunflowers.
Mother Robin calling anxiously &
her young squawking, near Bungalow.
Plenty of gypsy moth nest &
many dead females beneath them;
also a few still laying. Almost no males.
  Spent most of A.M. near spring
with Zeph & George, cutting wood road.
Had all the men weeding flower beds
in P.M.
[margin]Tree Cricket chirping feebly at 9 P.M.[/margin]