Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, Aug. 4, 1918 [August 4, 1918] Wea [Weather]
Fair
Partly sunny, largely cloudy. Cool
easterly to southerly breeze.
  Garden birds. The usual 2 Robins,
2 Red-eyes [Red-eyed Vireo], Chippy [Chipping Sparrow], Jays, Grackles,
Crows, Cedar birds, House Sparrows,
Swifts (4 at eve [evning]). ad [adult male] Oriole heard once
giving his fluting notes in full.
Red Screech Owl back on accustomed
perch high in tall ash in Jungle.
Of migrant Warblers I found in the Jungle
at 9 A.M. & afterwards 4 Mniotiltas [Mniotilta varia],
3 Oven birds and a young [male] Golden wing [Golden-winged Warbler].
All these were presumably fresh arrivals
that had dropped in overnight. Like
those of same species here before of late
they kept together, very near the ground
(rarely visiting tree or branch near there
six or eight feet above it), and were
neither shy nor restless.
  Read war news & wrote letters in
forenoon. Miss Balch & Frank Manning
dined with E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] & me on back piazza.
Frank stayed on until 5 P.M.
E. read aloud to me after supper.

Cambridge - Boston
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Aug. 5, 1918 [August 5, 1918] Wea [Weather]
Fair
Calm, warm & very humid. Forenoon
cloudy, afternoon sunny.
  Garden birds. Not closely observed but
evidently few in numbers. Red-eye Vireo [Red-eyed Vireo]
heard singing interruptedly & listlessly,
Oven bird chirping under my window
at daybreak. 2 or 3 Robins, several 
House Sparrows, 2 Kingbirds, one or
more Cedar birds (heard), a Jay, a
Swift & 6 Grackles flying over at
evening. No Screech Owl in Jungle.
  Dr. Stevens called at 10.30. He
motored me to Harvard Square
whence I went by trolley car to our
Boston office. Saw there Darling, Beemis
& Miss Walker. The last named told
me in confidence of her engagement to
Dr. Francis Watson, cousin of Cameron
Forbes. She seemed radiantly happy.
Lunched at Thompson's & called at
Pinkham & Smith's for glasses. Home by 4.30.
Mary Almy supped with us on back
piazza. Mrs. Fred Allen & Bessy called later.