Glendale.
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Aug. 22, 1917 [August 22, 1917] Wea [Weather]
Fishing trip to Hager's Pond. Fair
Partly cloudy, partly sunny. Rather
warm & humid but not oppressively
so. Light variable winds.
  Prentiss & I went again to Hager's Pond
this morning. After catching some grasshoppers
for bait we embarked in a small skiff
which I paddled out from shore &
allowed to drift before a gentle breeze
which wafted us hither & thither over 
forests of waving water plants submerged,
past great assemblages of floating cow lily
leaves. Very pleasing was it to thus
pass a couple of quiet, restful hours
watching Prentiss fish & listening to the voices 
of woodland birds. They seemed to be
assembled there in great numbers & some
variety. I heard Red-shouldered Hawks &
Jays mimicing their screaming, sad-voiced
Wood Pewees, Crows, a Black-bill Cuckoo [Black-billed Cuckoo],
an Oriole, Nuthatch, Bobolink, Swamp Sp. [Swamp Sparrow]
Maryland Yellow-throat, Kingbird etc.
Prentiss caught only one fish, a handsome
red perch. Agrionidae out in great force.
  Dan [Daniel Chester French] & I dined with McIntosh 7 P.M.
Everything of best & daintiest, as usual, & our host
at his very best. Prentiss joined us later. We three
returned about 9 o'clock along dark road.

Glendale.
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Aug. 23, 1917 [August 23, 1917] Wea [Weather]
Unsettled.
Partly sunny but mostly cloudy threatening
rain. Rather warm with light variable
wind.
  Dan [Daniel Chester French] & I had breakfast at 7 A.M. with Prentiss
who then left us for New York to join his brother
there. Soon after his departure I started for
a walk. In some shrubbery near our house
were 3 Chestnut-sided Warblers, all young
in fresh autumnal pl. [plumage] showing no chestnut.
One was shaking & pummeling a smooth
caterpillar about 2 inches long. This it
finally swallowed. I saw a Chippy [Chipping Sparrow] deal
similarly with one yesterday. More than
a dozen Chippies [Chipping Sparrow] flew up from weed patch
in garden this morning. Strolled down road
to the Warner's to find them preparing for
a pic nic at Hager's Pond. Mr. W. showed me
his vegetable garden & berry patch & was
otherwise most obliging as he always is.
  In late P.M. Dan & I motored to
Hager's Pond & walked back thro [through] Knights
woods. Cloudy then with occasional rain
drops Almost no birds seen or heard.
  Spent evening in parlor, talking.