First Cicada. Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, July 21, 1918 Wea [Weather]
Charles River Marshes. Fine
Clear, calm, oppressively warm. Light
easterly breeze & a brief shower (without
thunder) in P.M.
  Garden birds. 2 Robins in full song at eve.
& other hours; 5 Robins, 2 Grackles & 6
House Sparrows on lawn; Chippy [Chipping Sparrow] singing
fitfully. Red-eye [Red-eyed Vireo] freely; Kingbird calling.
A great mob of excited Robins making
prodigious clamor at nightfall in Jungle,
shifting thence to Birch Grove & thence across
Brewster St., in evident pursuit of some
dreaded winged marauder which must
have been a Screech Owl.
  Spent most of day in Museum, writing.
Worked partly on article for Rhodora about
Lathyrus pratensis & Rhamnus Frangula at Concord.
Dr. Cheeney called in forenoon Dr. Stephens in
afternoon. I saw them both. C. [Caroline Brewster] is very brave
& cheerful about it all. Her left eye will
probably be operated on next Wednesday.
  In late P.M. I walked up Brattle St. thence
along borders of marshes to Cambridge Cemetery.
2 Meadow Larks calling, at least a dozen or
I think more, Song Sparrows singing far & near.
I found a pretty plumed grass new to me.
Marshes overgrown in many places with trees &
bushes. Cart path around isolated hill
much as of yore - also Coolidge [?]

Usual evening reading in hall. E. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] finished Orley Farm. Miss Hoppin at dinner on
back piazza.

Mniotilta singing freely in Jungle. First Cicada.

Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, July 22, 1918 Wea [Weather]
Fine
Cloudless, windless & intensely hot. The
first really and thoroughly uncomfortable
day since May 6 & 7.
  Garden birds. Loud outcries on the part of
many Robins awakened me at 5.30 A.M.
Dressing hastily I hurried forth to find the
Blackwell's cat just outside our clothes
yard fence sitting erect at the edge of a bed
of grass in which lay a speckle-breasted but
full grown young Robin. It seemed more 
frightened than hurt & when I tried to
grasp it flew off swiftly alighting first on
ground & then high in a maple over Reidesel [Riedesel] Ave.
The agonized cries of another Robin evidently
caught by a cat came from the Jungle as
we sat at dinner on back piazza & at
supper time Danny chased a lank Maltese
cat up the middle garden walk & out
over the western boundary fence.
Of other birds we had a Mniotilta singing
brokenly 2 Oven birds together on ground in
lilacs, the usual singing Red-eye, a
Jay, 2 Grackles on lawn.
  In Museum most of day working
on article relating to the two plants
found at Concord. Walked up street to
Elmwood in late P.M. & around garden
with C. [Caroline] after supper. She had a busy day
preparing to go to the hospital to-morrow.