Cambridge - Boston
Ther. [Thermometer] Thursday, July 5, 1917 Wea. [Weather]
My sixty-sixth birthday. Perfect
Brilliantly clear & delightfully cool
with light easterly wind.
  Garden birds. A dozen or more Robins, 
hordes of H. Sparrows [House Sparrow], a [female] Oriole & one Grackle
visiting cherry trees laden with ripening fruit.
Red-eyed Vireo singing in Jungle, ad [adult male]
Oriole in Hubbard Park... 8 crows flying
successively from Jungle toward river.
The concert of Robin voices was again
kept up nearly all day with two or
three birds vieing [vying] with each other at 
times especially towards sunset. It was
good to hear them thus. There were
many scattered through Hubbard Park
but our cherry trees attract them largely
just now. I see only a few speckled-breasted
young. Swifts at evening.
  Went in town at 10:30 to meet Judge
Abbott at our office. talked with him for
about an hour. Saw Galloupe & Darling, also.
Sold $2400 Liberty Bonds at par.
  Home by 1.20. C. [Caroline Brewster] had arranged a pleasant
surprize party for this my 66th birthday.
The Spelmans, Alice & Harriet Bartlett came.
We dined on back piazza & strolled about 
garden afterwards. Lizzy Fuller & her sister
came to supper. I had a fine birth day
cake & several presents.

Cambridge
Ther. [Thermometer] Friday, July 6, 1917 Wea. [Weather]
Perfect.
Clear, almost windless, cool rather
than warm yet warmer than yesterday.
  Garden birds. Very many Robins, the usual 
tireless singing Red-eye [Red-eyed Vireo], a Chippy [Chipping Sparrow] singing
in lilacs at short, regular intervals 1-1.15 P.M.
an ad [adult male] Oriole fluting in Jungle & a [female]
flying from it over lawn. Blue Jays &
Crows heard, also Swifts.
  Although I do not see more than
a dozen Robins in the Garden at any
one time it is probable that at least 
thrice that number visit it daily, attracted
by the ripening cherries, for they are constantly 
coming into & flying from, the cherry trees.
Two birds sing steadily, almost all day long,
& one or two others can be heard faintly in 
the distance.
  Spent most of day in Museum writing 
& filing letters. To afternoon tea at the 
Fairchilds' 5-6.15 P.M. About 20 people 
there among them Alvin Seale of Cala [California] & his 
pretty wife. He collected Pacific sea birds for
me 20 years ago but this is the first time
we have ever met. I liked him at first sight.
Talked with several others, also
Spent evening in Peace Room with C. [Caroline Brewster] & E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons]
the latter reading aloud.