Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, Aug. 27, 1916 [August 27, 1916.] Wea [Weather] Fair
Great inroad of Robins & Orioles.

Mostly sunny & very warm bit clouds
gathered in late P.M.& light rain fell after dark.

  The Garden flooded with Robins & Orioles from 
9.00 A.M. to almost noon. To count or even closely
estimate their numbers proved hopeless for they
overspread our entire grounds & were constantly
flitting to & fro. Altogether there could not have
been less than fifty of each species & may well have
been twice as many. As I sat at breakfast on
the back piazza they appeared by [?] in the
sunny opening just outside & afterwards were met 
with even more numerously throughout the Jungle
while they swarmed for hours in the rum cherry by
the museum gate, feasting [on] its ripe fruit. Many
of the Robins were adults but only one ad [adult] [male] Oriole
was seen. Of other species I noted 2 Mniotiltas, a
Nashville Warbler juv [juvenile] an Oven bird [Ovenbird], 5 Red eyes
[Red-eyed vireos](one singing feebly), a Water Thrush, a Flicker, 2 Jays,
a Kingbird (heard), Cedar birds [Cedar waxwings] (heard), Crows (heard)
4 Starlings in elm, one singing long & rather pleasingly.

  Spent forenoon in Garden & Museum, writing
several letters. C. [Caroline Brewster] went to church at St. Pauls.
She & I walked thro [through] Hubbard Park & up Brattle St.
in late P.M., meeting Sally F.  Victrola concert after supper.

 An unseen Wood Pewee, evidently in our lindens, uttered its full song once, at 11 A.M.

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer]  Monday, Aug. 28, 1916 [August 28,1916] Wea [Weather] 
Stormy
Dark cloudy & cool with heavy thunder
shower about 10 A.M. followed by almost
incessant rain lasting until night.

  In Garden: At least 30 or 40 Robins but
only a few Orioles (certainly not more than
half a dozen) Nor were there many other
birds.  Of the last mentioned, indeed, I noted
only a Redstart  juv. [juvenile] in ragged plumage, a [female]
Mniotilta, 2 Jays, 4 Grackles & several
Starlings [,] one of which whistled, skirled & 
chuckled by turns for many minutes in
succession. I had hoped for a heavy
flight of Warblers during the past week
but no such movement has taken place
or at least manifested itself here since
my return in Cambridge on the 21st. It
would be interesting to know where the flood
of Orioles present yesterday came from. Nearly
all of them must have passed on southward last night.

  Spent day partly in house reading to C.,
partly in Museum, copying Concord bird notes.
At 5 P.M. called on the Fairchilds with aviator's
letters which Sally read aloud & very effectively.
Spent evening with C., reading war news & playing Victrola.