Glendale.
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, Aug. 18, 1918 [August 18, 1918] Wea [Weather]
53 [degrees] at 7 A.M. Perfect.
The glorious autumnal-like weather
of yesterday & the day before continues
essentially unchanged although to-day
was somewhat cooler than the others
and almost windless.
  Baltimore Oriole in full cry, Red-eye [Red-eyed Vireo],
Purple Finch & Wood Pewee singing
listlessly. Flicker & Blackbill Cuckoo [Black-billed Cuckoo]
near house, two brown Indigo birds
in cornfield. Also in corn & busily
feeding among its "tassels", a bird not
unlike ad [adult male] Purple Finch but smaller,
slenderer & more mulberry red throughout
its handsome body plumage. It looked
a good deal like the Cal. House Finch [California House Finch]
but I failed to identify it although
viewing it long at close range in full sunlight.
Barn Swallows from the barn torn down
last spring at the Knight (now Smith) place
have nested since in the French's barn & in
Mc.Intoshes barn & sheds. In one of latter
a pair were feeding young in nest to-day.
Shortly after breakfast Mrs. Will French
& I walked down road to Smith place.
In mid P.M. all the members of our
household save Mrs. D.C.F. [Mrs. Daniel Chester French] visited
Mc.Intosh & were most graciously
received & entertained by him.
Evening spent in parlor, talking.

Glendale.
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Aug. 19, 1918 [August 19, 1918] Wea [Weather]
Perfect.
A fourth day essentially like the
other three and precisely like yesterday.
During all four days the Dome has
been at no time obscured by clouds &
but slightly at any time by haze.
This glorious weather is distinctly
autumnal in character yet often if not
usually characteristic of the latter half of
August which obviously belongs to autumn
rather than summer, as far as seasonal 
conditions go to show.
  Red-eye [Red-eyed Vireo], Oriole & Wood Pewee singing
more or less freely; also a Black & White
Creeper. Unusual scarcity of migrant
Warblers. Failed to see or hear a single
one in extensive pine woods across road,
where they usually abound at this season.
  Spent A.M. in house & studio. In P.M.
went with Dan [Daniel Chester French] to pine grown pasture across
road, whither Mr. Smith accompanied us.
No birds whatever there. Capt. Albert Fletcher
came from Washington at 7.30 & entertained
us delightfully all the evening - when
Mc.Intosh & Lukemann called.