Cotuit - Boston - Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Aug. 21, 1916 [August 21,1916] Wea [Weather] Fine
91 [degrees] max. [maximum]
  Clear & hot but not humid. Light
southerly to south-easterly breeze.

  Loud outcry of Great Blue Heron & quawks [squawks]
of Night Heron heard in middle of night.
Pine Warbler singing a little, brokenly, and
at least 2 Wood Peewees [Pewees] freely & well, shortly after
daybreak & later. Crows assembled close about
house soon after sunrise to carry on a 
protracted conversational cawing even more
remarkable than that of yesterday morn [morning] &
quite without precedent in my past experience.

  It was dead calm & decidedly warm
when I said good bye. To the Almys at 9.30 A. M.
& started for West Barnstable with Capt. Hull.
We passed several flocks of Tree & Barn 
Swallows on telegraph wires along the road.
Took 10.10 train for Boston reaching there
at 12.30 & going direct to our office where I
saw Darling, only. Lunched at Marston's &
came out to Cambridge about 3 P. M. Wrote
letters, had a short nap, supped alone on
back piazza, called on the Howes 7.30-9.
2 Robins on lawn, Kingbird heard in lindens

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Aug. 22, 1916 [August 22, 1916] Wea [Weather] Fine
Charlie & Ned Read insane.
  Cloudless and very warm with
light southerly breeze.

  In Garden 5 Robins, 2 Black & White
Creepers ([male] & [female] in lilacs), a Water Thrush, a
Red-eyed Vireo (heard only), sev. [several] House
Sparrows, a Baltimore Oriole [male] ad [adult] [in weak song], 2
Jays [singing], a Kingbird (perched on topmost
spray of elm in front of Almy house),
5 Swifts circling low at evening.
At the Morrill Wyman place, about
sunset. 50+ Bronzed Grackles & 31 Robins
flew over me westward, doubtless toward
some more or less distant roost.

  Countless Tree Crickets chirping fast
& ceaselessly last night & this recalling 
summers long gone for 'tis many years
since I have heard them so numerously.
Cicadas shrilling all day long. Many
Butterflies about our flowers.
Harry Spelman at breakfast with me on
back piazza. Spent day in Museum
writing letters. Walked up Appleton & down.
Sparks St. at sunset. Charlie & Ned Read
hopelessly insane. & sent to Waverly two weeks ago.