England.
Oxford, England.
1911.
July 5
[July 5, 1911]

  Cloudless with light westerly breezes & intervals of dead calm. Very
warm (max. 83 [degrees]). Evening calm and rather sultry but not uncomfortably so.

British bird music

  Awaking soon after day break (probably about 2 A.M.) I heard
in the garden at the rear of our house, coming in through my open
window, a delightful burst of bird music which lasted nearly half
an hour. The birds engaged in it were a Robin, a Blackbird, two
Song Thrushes and a Wren. Late in the forenoon in the trees that
shade the Mall in Christchurch Meadows or in the gardens at the
rear of its bordering village, I heard heard more Song Thrushes, a Blackbird,
a Robin, a Stock Dove and, over a grassy field, a Skylark. An hour
later most of the birds in the beautiful garden of Wadham College were
silent but a Chiff Chaff and Green Finch were singing fitfully and a
Hedg Sparrow [Hedge Sparrow] occasionally. For fully two hours at evening (6.30-8.30)
there was a continuous and thrilling concert of bird voices in the trees
& shrubbery bordering on the Cherwell just above the "Rollers". Here we
heard 2 Thrushes, several Wrens & robins and one Blackbird. During a