Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, July 25, 1918 Wea [Weather]
74 [degrees] Dull
Cloudy & cool with light easterly breeze.
Sun shining dimly now & then.
  Garden birds. The two red Screech Owls
remained perched all day within a yard of
each other in top of a tall tree, amid dense
foliage, directly above where I saw them
last night. Percy discovered them there
this morning. The Robins paid no attention
to them during daylight hours but at
evening made loud outcry again.
A Miniotilla calling; a Chippy singing
(once, only); Swifts heard at evening;
6 Grackles flying high at sunset.
  Most of day devoted to botanical article
which I finished by 4 P.M. To the 
Spelmans at 6. They came back with
me to see our dahlias, now making a
handsome show. E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] read to me
in hall after supper. Percy went
in town with C's [Caroline Brewster] bed this morning
& saw her at hospital bringing back an
encouraging report. Dr. Steven's called
to see me this morning. He seemed in
bad shape, himself.

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, July 26, 1918 Wea [Weather]
82 [degrees] max. Fair
Forenoon cloudy; afternoon sunny, calm &
warm.
  Garden birds. The two Screech Owls spent
another day perched exactly (to an inch)
where they were yesterday. Again they were
mobbed by Robins in gathering twilight.
After dark I last night heard one utter
the cat-like, yowling cry & to-night one is
wailing as I write this.
2 Cedar birds on wing yesterday & 3 to-day
in run cherry by Mus. [Museum] gate although its 
fruit is still green & hard. A Goldfinch,
a Kingbird, 2 Mniotiltas, an Oriole, a
Jay, Grackles, & Swifts on wing. Crow heard.
Mt Auburn [Mount Auburn Cemetery] birds. Robin, Flickers (2),
Starlings (5 or 6).
  Bird music, declining thro past week
has by now almost wholly ceased.
Save the Red-eye Vireo [Red-eyed Vireo] was silent to-day.
Letter writing absorbed most of my
attention this day. At 3 P.M. motored to
& thro Mt. Auburn with E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] visiting 
her family lot & Henry Purdie's. She
read to me on back piazza after supper
- from "Aristida Pourjoi".