Concord - Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, July 3, 1917 Wea [Weather]
Fair
Partly sunny; mostly cloudy. Light
rain at evening. Warm & humid. Light
S.W. [southwest] wind.
  Concord. Forenoon spent at Farm,
putting things away, picking strawberries,
spaying [spraying] for an hour along new cart path
in Pulpit Rock woods. White-throat Sparrow
singing near Cow Pasture; usual birds
in song about house.
  Gilbert motored me to Cambridge
(12-1.05 P.M.) via Bedford, Lexington
& Trapelo road. Found C. [Caroline Brewster] & E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] at
home, both well but looking appreciably
older than when I last saw them two
or rather three months ago. We lunched
on back piazza. Had hair cut by
Marks, Harvard Square, in P.M.
Lizzy Fuller & her sister with us at
supper. E. read to me after they went
2 Robins & a Red-eye [Red-eyed Vireo] singing freely
in Garden towards evening. Several 
Jays screaming.

Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, July 4, 1917 Wea [Weather]
72 [degrees] max. [maximum] Abundance of Robins Fair
Thin cloudy with occasional gleam of dim 
sunshine. Seasonably warm. Light S.W. [southwest] wind.
  Garden birds. Robins singing incessantly & visiting
cherry trees taking therefrom ripe fruit to young
calling in the lilacs & elsewhere; a Red-eyed
Vireo singing; Crows cawing & Jays screaming;
Swifts twittering overhead at morn & eve. [evening];
a Flicker shouting now & then; only a few
House Sparrows. The Robin music was, as I
have said, practically continuous all day long &
very pleasing to listen to. Towards evening at
least three different birds took part in it
at times & usually there were two. I heard 
or saw others further up Brattle Street. They
are evidently much more numerous in this
part of Cambridge than for many years past.
The young I heard calling were apparently out
of the nest & scattered. That they could have
been hatched & reared despite Crows and Jays so
numerous hereabouts is surprizing.
  Spent most of day in Museum going over bills
letters etc. Called on the Spelmans in their 
garden at 4 P.M. & on the Fairchilds after
supper.