Glendale.
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, July 26, 1916 Wea [Weather]
Stormy
Dark cloudy, densely misty & comparatively
cool, although oppressively humid, with persistent
drenching rain in forenoon and a still heavier
but briefer downpour in late P.M.
  Stimulated, no doubt, by the relatively cool &
mist-laden air coming out of the South west [southwest]
many of our familiar birds sang at frequent
intervals all day, almost if not quite as sweetly
& fervently as a month ago. Among these were
the Solitary & Red-eyed Vireos, the Song, Field &
Chippy [Chipping] Sparrows, the Indigo bird [Indigo bunting] & the Scarlet Tanager.
The House Wren & the Wood Pewee also sang well, if
but sparingly. The Wood Thrush at rear of studio
made the dripping woods ring with his rich contralto
voice for a minute or more as twilight was deepening
at evening. Shortly afterwards 2 Whippoorwills sang
almost continuously for several minutes afar off.
No Robin voice was heard.
  Worked on note copying through most of day & spent
an hour with Dan [French] in his hillside studio in late P.M.
where he was working on his Lincoln. 
Dick Dana arrived at 5.30 & Mr. & Mrs. [?]
French an hour later. We had an unusually
scrumptious dinner & after it sat first on
piazza & then in studio, smoking & talking
until past 11 o'clock.

Glendale.
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, July 27, 1916 Wea [Weather] Fair
First Cicada. First Nocturnal Migrant.
Partly cloudy and very hazy, yet sunny
for most part and oppressively warm &
humid up to 4 P.M. when the light wind
shifted from southerly to easterly, bringing
refreshing coolness & increasing cloudiness at
the close of an exceptionally trying day & week.
  Most of the birds heard singing yesterday were
no less freely & pleasingly vocal to-day [today] while
the Red-eyed & Solitary Vireo, the Chippy [Chipping Sparrow], the
Field Sparrow & the Indigo bird, sang almost as
freely as in early June. I heard the Wood Pewee
only occasionally, however, and the House Wren
but twice. A Wood Thrush at rear of Studio & a 
Hermit [Hermit Thrush] further off sang continuously for several
minutes in the dusky evening twilight after 
Bats had appeared against the glowing western sky
& the last Robin flown to roost. After dark night
began we heard only the chirping of Field Crickets, the
distant bellowing of Bull Frogs and the call, thrice
given, of some passing bird migrant flying southward
- perhaps a Veery although it did not sound quite like that.
At bed time two dogs in hot pursuit of Deer or Fox
crossed the lawn unseen making a deafening clamor.
First Cicada frying this noon - very late for it to begin.
  Day passed as usual playing Victrola in studio for
an hour in forenoon, writing in chamber, visiting
Dan in hill studio in late P.M. Dick left us shortly
after breakfast to preside over meeting Civil Service Council
at Stockbridge & to spend night there.