Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, July 31, 1918 Wea [Weather]
Fair
Forenoon cloudy, afternoon sunny.
Cool easterly wind. Raining thro last night.
Garden birds. Interesting flock of migrating 
Warblers doubtless including some of those
here yesterday but also others not then noted
or individually not the same. Thus there 
were to-day 3 Golden wings [Golden-winged Warbler], ad. [adult male] ad. [adult female] & juv. [juvenile female];
Mniotiltas; 3 Oven birds; 2 Yellow
Warbler, juv. [male & female juvenile] The Oven Birds kept 
mostly in the Jungle & on the ground; all
the rest rambled hither & thither together
spending much of their time in the grape arbor
where I viewed them to good advantage & at
close range for all were very tame & some
of the Mniotiltas wholly without fear of me.
Besides these species there were 2 Orioles, [females], one
a moulting ad. [adult] the other juv. [juvenile]; 3 Cedar birds
2 Robins; a Red-eye [Red-eyed Vireo]; a Chippy [Chipping Sparrow] [in full song] (singing many
times; a Jay & Kingbird heard, 2
Swifts circling high, 6 or 7 House Sparrows
on lawn. The changes in the Warbler flock since
 yesterday are interesting because the whole of 
last night was densely cloudy
with rain falling ceaselessly. Hence it seemed
no time for birds to either arrive or depart on
migration - as, however apparently did happen.
  Letter writing & bird watching occupied my
forenoon. To Harvard Square to have hair
cut in P.M. when E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] kept on into
Boston in Ford car to visit C. [Caroline Brewster]
Usual evening reading

Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Aug. 1, 1918 [August 1, 1918] Wea [Weather]
Clear & cool with light northerly wind.
  Garden birds. 2 ad. [adult] Robins on lawn; 1 ad Red eye [adult Red-eyed Vireo]
& Chippy [Chipping Sparrow], singing a few notes; a Cedar bird,
Oriole, Kingbird, Swift; 2 Grackles, 3 Jays;
Screech Owl (red ad. [adult]). on same perch in Jungle
where two have been of late; 2 or 3 House
Sparrows on front lawn.
  Of migrant Warblers I could find about
the place ( after searching every nook & corner
of it many times) only 2 Mniotiltas, 2
Oven birds & an adult [male] Golden wing [Golden-winged Warbler].
These kept near together all day, mostly in
the south-east corner of Jungle next the lawn.
Presumably they were individually
included in the little flock here yesterday,
being apparently some of the self-same birds.
The others must have kept on southward last
night. If so it seems strange that all did
not depart together-especially the Golden wings [Golden-winged Warbler]
(The night was clear, calm & cool)
  Spent entire day out of doors superintending
work about place, mostly that of laying a water
pipe across driveway to Percy's garden.
Edward Emerson arrived at 1 P.M. bringing
two exquisite little oil paintings as a gift
to me. He dined with us on back piazza