Bethel to Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, June 15, 1918 Wea [Weather]
Fine
Clear & cool with fresh westerly wind.
  A Chipping Sparrow roused me at
sunrise by noisy tapping & fluttering against
lower sash of my chamber window (facing N. [North]).
He has been at it once or twice daily ever
since I came here but never for more than
a few minutes each time. His bill strokes
against the glass or sash sound much like
a sharp rapping on a door & are loud
enough to wake a sound sleeper. His fluttering
is neither violent nor prolonged. He does
not seem excited & often pauses to peep in
through glass or to look fixedly in other directions.
After dressing I walked up Paradise road. Many
birds singing. Alder Flycatcher calling.
Breakfast at 7.30. Left Bethel at 8.50
& reached Portland at 11.55. Got across
city just in time to catch 12.20 train
for Boston. Arrived there at 4 P.M. 
& at our Cambridge house at 4.30.
Looked out of car windows most of way
Fields white with daisies & yellow
with buttercups. Here & there saw large
patches of orange hawkweed - very brilliant.
Many Terns at Scarboro Marshes [Scarborough Marsh].

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, June 16, 1918 Wea [Weather]
Disappearance of leaf-eating insects Fine
Clear & rather cool with light west wind.
Although no trees within our grounds have been
sprayed this year there is not one showing
any signs of insect pests. The foliage of all
not injured by cold last winter is more
luxuriant & perfect than for many years past.
As noted during my recent trip to & from
Bethel these happy conditions seem universal
throughout eastern Mass. [Massachusetts] & N.H. [New Hampshire] and western Me. [Maine]
Everywhere there the Brown tails are practically
extent [extinct], the Gyps [Gypsy Moth] & Elm leaf Beetles nearly so.
  Garden birds. 2 Robins singing well, 8 or 10
ad. [adult] & juv. [juvenile], in cherry trees; Red-eyed Vireo [male in full song]
Warbling Vireo [male in full song] (heard twice in Jungle, 9 A.M.)
Oriole [male in full song] (uncommonly fine singer); Blue jay,
ad. [adult] screaming, (young gone fr. [from] nest in
hawthorn Percy saw them leaving it on 14th)
Starlings, 15+ eating cherries greedily;
Grackle, 2 in cherry tree; House Sparrows
8+ [in cherry tree]; Kingbird, 1 perched on tree top in
Jungle, calling; Swift 2 on wing at eve.
  Spent most of day in Museum, writing
letters. Saw Harry Spelman in his garden
late P.M. Miss Allyn dined with me on
back piazza. C. [Caroline Brewster] at table there.