Glendale
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, July 16, 1916 Wea [Weather]
Fair
Mostly sunny but partly cloudy & densely
hazy. Warm with fresh S.W. [southwest] wind.
  Not much bird music save at morn [morning] & eve [evening]
when Wood & Hermit Thrushes, Wood Pewee, Indigo bird
& others sang freely. The Robins remain for the most
part silent at all hours, being constantly occupied
in seeking food for broods of young about to leave
or just out of, the nest. Thus engaged they dot
our lawns plentifully at times. Among them,
this evening, appeared our little Coney (?) Rabbit,
very tame & confiding as usual.
  Spent forenoon writing letters. Dan & Mrs. French
motored off to Hudson (42 miles) for the day.
Ralph Hoffman called on me at 3.30, staying
until past 5. I took him to Pasture Outlook
where we sat for an hour or more & had a
delightful talk, largely about Berkshire flora & the
birds he has seen near Kansas City. He heard a
Peabody bird in the Larch Swamp & found a nest
of D. virens [Dendroica virens] with well-fledged young among outer
twigs of hemlock directly over where we sat & scarce
8 ft. [feet] from ground. After he had gone Mrs. Lyman &
her daughter came & later Mr. [?].
Dan [Daniel Chester French] & Mrs. F. [Mrs. French] returned in time for supper. After
it we sat on piazza & chatted ceaselessly.

Glendale
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, July 17, 1916 Wea [Weather]
Stormy
Raining ceaselessly, at times heavily, through 
forenoon. Afternoon dark cloudy. Sky clearing
at sunset. Oppressively warm & humid all
day with light southerly wind.
  Comparatively little bird music. It has
obviously begun to materially decline although
most species continue to sing more or less
and a few almost as freely as ever. I
cannot understand the very general silence
of the Robins, established before I reached
here on the 10th. Last year they sang gloriously
and continually up to the 25th of July and
at morn & eve were hear for a week or so
later.
  Spent much of day in room, reading &
writing. Played Victrola music in studio
for an hour or more after dinner to
entertain Dan & Louise Schoonmaker of whom 
he is making an oil painting.
He & I walked down road almost to
village in late P.M. Mrs. Schoonmaker
departed soon after luncheon.