Cambridge - Boston
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, Aug. 11, 1916 [August 11, 1916] Wea [Weather] Fine
59 [degrees] min [minimum] 69 [degrees] max [maximum]
Clear & very cool with fresh northerly
wind.
  In Garden: 4 Robins (all adult) on
front lawn; Flicker, Grackle, Swift
& House Sparrows heard. Looked & listened
in vain for migrant Warblers. They
should be coming from further north
and settling among our profuse
leafage, by now.
  To Boston at 10.30. Went direct to
our office where I found Galloupe &
Darling. Signed & swore to our Trustees
Annual Probate Account. Josephine Bates
called about noon to discuss plans for getting
her mother out of our house in Brewster Street.
I declined to meddle in the matter personally.
Arthur took me to lunch at Youngs.
Everyone says last Tuesday was one of the
most trying days ever known in Boston.
Left office at 2 P.M. Called at Steinert's for
August records and at Washington stores for
underwear & two cheap [?] suits for Concord.
Home by 4 P.M. Played new records in
evening. Many of them good but no "jems".

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, Aug. 12, 1916 [August 12, 1916] Wea [Weather] Fine
First migrant Warblers in Garden.
Clear & just pleasingly warm with
light westerly breeze.
  In Garden: Nashville Warbler chirping at
intervals thro [through] day in Jungle & appearing at sunset
in outstanding hawthorn & cedar where I viewed
him closely. Water Thrush also heard by day in
Jungle & seen at evening by pond front of
Museum. Besides these freshly arrived Migrants
I noted only the usual summer residents - 
several Robins (ad, & juv. [adult & juvenile]), Red-eye [red-eyed vireo] ([male] singing feebly)
Goldfinch [male] ad. [adult] ("galloping" high in air with sweet 
calling but no full song), Flicker, 2 Jays
(screaming freely), Bronzed Grackle, Swifts
(twittering overhead at evening).
  One Cicada heard through day. Tree Crickets
in nearly full cry after dark. One "chirped" a
little, feebly, on evenings of 10th & 11th.
  Garden Toads fast repopulating our grounds now
that they have the pond to breed in. Found a dozen
or more of assorted sizes in cellar window areas
to-day & with them a Frog. Hundreds of very small
Toad tadpoles still in pond. About a dozen Frogs there.
  Spent day in Museum writing letters etc.
Evening in den reading war news, mostly.