South Yarmouth - Cotuit Narrows.
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, Aug. 19, 1916 [August 19, 1916] Wea [Weather]
Perfect.
Clear & warm with light S.E. [southeast] breeze.
To Haines & Long Ponds with Mrs. Stone [Alice Stone]
in forenoon (10-1). The former brim full
with its ordinarily broad grassy margin
submerged & blooming Sabbatia showing only
here & there above Bream-haunted shallows.
Oak woods very generally devastated by
Gypsy larvae [gypsy moth larvae] and swarming almost everywhere
with [female] moths laying eggs & [males] engaged in
devious amatory flight. Only a few Ant
Lion pits in sand bank roadside colony.
At least 6 or 7 Wood Pewees heard mostly
in pitch pine woods. Mixed flock including 
Pine, Prairie & Black-throated Green Warblers,
Oven birds [Ovenbirds], Red eyes [Red-eyed Vireos] & Chippies [Chipping Sparrows] met with
near Long Pond.
  Capt. [Captain] Hall came for me in his new
Overland car at 3.15 bringing Mr. & Mrs
Almy & Mary. We had a delightful ride
through Hyannis, Centreville & Osterville.
2 Carolina Doves in field at Parkers River.
Called at the Baxters' but Fannie & Minnie
were away & the house locked up. Reached 
Cotuit Narrows about 5 P.M. Many Wood
Pewees singing near it.

Cotuit Narrows.
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, Aug. 20, 1916 [August 20, 1916] Wea [Weather]
Perfect.
  Cloudless with light easterly breeze.
Warm in sun, agreeably cool in shade.
  Prodigious outcry of Great Blue herons about
midnight & near at hand awakened me from
sound sleep. Several engaged in it uttering
squawking cries unfamiliar to my ears in any
past experience still remembered. Wood Pewees
sang freely at daybreak & later, Pine Warblers
a little now & then. Laughing Gulls & Common
Terns heard over river. Several Crows very near
house, cawing in varied tones for half an hour after sunrise.
  Spent most of day in doors [indoors] talking with
Mr. & Mrs. A. [Mr. and Mrs. Almy], Mary [Mary Almy], Nancy [Nancy Almy], Betty [Betty Almy] & Dr. Cobb.
Dr. James Putman & his son called. At 5 P.M.
Almy [Charles Almy] & I started for a walk along Pine Needle
Road. Oak woods here & elsewhere more
or less much stripped by Gypsy larvae.
Countless dead moths & very many nests.
Evidently all had [laid?] for none seen living.
Wood Pewees everywhere. We were scarce ever
beyond sound of their plaintive voices. At
Eagle Lake saw or heard a Kingfisher, Swifts,
Maryland Yellow-throat Catbird, Downy W. [Downy Woodpecker].
Evening spent in living room, talking.