Cambridge - Boston
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, July 29, 1917 Wea [Weather]
Fair
  Partly cloudy, mostly sunny but very hazy.
Warm & humid again with light S.W. [southwest] breeze.
  Garden birds. Two unidentified Warblers; one
looked & chirped like a Tennessee, the other
like a Yellow Warbler but I could not get
a good view of either. They kept mostly in
tall, dense-foliaged trees in the Jungle.
Besides these we had the usual Robins,
Grackles, Blue Jays, Chippy [Chipping Sparrow], Red-eye [Red-eyed Vireo] &
a Swift at evening. Also a Hummingbird
(with white throat) at bee balm, 9 A.M.
  Accompanied C. [Caroline Brewster] to St. Paul's this
forenoon. The first time I have been
in a church for a year or more.
Beautiful music & an excellent sermon.
  Spent most of afternoon in Museum
writing letters. Walked in garden with
C. just before supper & after it read
Emerson's Thoreau to her until 
George Deane called at 8. He stayed
about an hour. He says a pair of
Sparrow Hawks are seen frequently close
about Catholic church & probably have
bred in or near it.

Cambridge - Concord.
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, July 30, 1917 Wea [Weather]
94 [degrees] max. Concord  98 [degrees] max Boston (official) Fine
  Cloudless with brilliant sunshine and
fresh westerly breeze without which the
intense heat would have been unendurable.
Our ther. [thermometer] at rear of house rose to 94 [degrees] at
1 P.M. when the one at east window stood
at 96 [degrees]. (This at Concord)
  Concord Farm birds. Only three species
in song, our House Wren all day, two
Chippies [Chipping Sparrow] thro [through] forenoon, a Robin (feebly)
in late P.M. A Pheasant crowed once
at sunset. Hummer [Hummingbird] (with white throat) at
bee balm. Young Swifts in north flue of house
making prodigious racket when fed (about
over every ten minutes) by parent who
rumbled loudly every time she dropped
into the chimney. Cedar bird catching flies
over field front of house.
Cicadas shrilling occasionally.
  Leaving home at 8.15 A.M. Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] & I
motored to Concord via Arlington Heights &
Burlington road to Bedford. Reached
Farm at 9.30. Spent most of day weeding
& watering. Took short woodland walk
Gypsy Moths on wing by thousands
females laying. Latter not numerous yet.