Cambridge - Boston
First full chorus Tree Crickets
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Aug. 15, 1916 [August 15, 1916] Wea [Weather] Fine
Nighthawk peeping at eve. [evening].
Clear & cool (less so than yesterday,
however) with light westerly wind.
  In Garden: 4 Robins on lawn; Bal. Oriole [Baltimore Oriole]
in superb aut pl. [autumn plumage] in Jungle, 9 A.M.; Hummer [Hummingbird]
(with white throat) at bee balm; Maryland
Yellow-throat in lilacs & other shrubbery;
unidentified Warbler flitting hither & thither
high in tree tops; 2 Red-eyes [Red-eyed Vireos] in Jungle;
4 Grackles on lawn & 12+ [12 plus] flying over at eve [evening?];
4 House Sparrows under lindens; Flicker &
Jay calling; Crows cawing; 2 Swifts circling
low at sunset; unseen Nighthawk
peeping scores of times, evidently on wing
& not far off eastward, about 7 P.M. (sunset)
Tree Crickets in full chorus first time this summer.
  To Boston at 10 A.M. Met Harry Bartlett at 53
Devonshire St. [53 Devonshire Street], where we arranged with Mr. Brown
to send 100 [pounds] to-day to Bessy Jefferson from
C's [Caroline Brewster] "Kenneth Fund". Spent 2 hours at our
& did a little shopping. Home to lunch. Wrote
letters & bird notes in P.M. Harry B. [Harry Bartlett] took me
around Fresh Pond & through Belmont 5 - 6 P.M.
His Franklin car ran very smoothly over rough roads.
Meadow Larks [Meadowlarks] in full song. Charles Riv. [Charles River] Marshes
& Fresh Pond, Solitary evening, reading.

Cambridge - South Yarmouth
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Aug. 16, 1916 [August 16, 1916] Wea [Weather]
Fine
Clear & very warm with fresh S.W. [southwest] wind.
Evening cool (at S. Yarmouth [South Yarmouth]).
  In Garden: 5 Robins eating rum cherries (not
nearly ripe) in tree by Museum gate; 3 young
Orioles [Baltimore Orioles], ditto; 2 [male] juv [2 male juvenile] Black & White Creepers,
1 Red-eye [1 Red-eyed Vireo], Flicker, Grackle, Swift, 2 Jays, 2
Crows (Hubbard Pk [Hubbard Park]) several House Sparrows.
  Wrote letters in forenoon. Lunch at 12.15.
Took 1.33 train for Cape. Vegetation of every kind
wonderfully green & luxuriant all the way. Only
a few (less than a dozen) Terns flying along
ship canal where so many were congregated
last year about this time. As our train was passing
head of Barnstable marshes a flock of Blackbirds,
apparently Red-wings [Red-winged Blackbirds] & numbering thousands, rose
and circled in a great, dusky cloud. Here, also
were seen on wing countless Barn Swallows, two
small flocks of "Peeps", several Meadow Larks,
a Green Heron & a young Marsh Hawk.
  Reached South Yarmouth (now Bass River) Station
at 4.33. Collins whisked me quickly to the
Stones in his new Ford depot car. Alice Stone
& Miss Whiting (Abbott Thayer's niece) gave me
a pleasant welcome. Evening spent in parlor.