Wea. [Weather] Fri. [Friday] March 20, 1903 Ther. [Thermometer]
44 [degrees]
76 [degrees]
  Cloudless, light W. [west] wind. Hot! 
Grass as green as in late April. Bat
flying over Garden at eve. Walter heard 
Toads trilling. Elms in full blossom.
Walter & I went to School St.  Belmont
at 8.30 A.M. to see Carolina Wren.  Male 
bird in full song: Been there about 2 weeks.
I got off car at Mt. Auburn gate on way
back & walked through cemetery to
Joe Coolidge farm & thence home.
Worked on Cambridge Birds most of
day. Outram Bangs called in P.M.
Fannie Ames lunched with me.
I dined with Margie & Walter Deane.
C. [Caroline] in bed with heavy cold.
Wea. [Weather] Saturday 21 [March 21, 1903] Ther. [Thermometer]
42 [degrees] 
52 [degrees]
  Cloudy with N.E. [northeast] wind and frequent
showers of light rain.
  Worked on Cambridge Birds in A.M..
Took 2.05 P.M. train for Concord. Gilbert
met me at station & we crossed river &
walked to farm meeting R.H. Howe Jr. [Junior]
near Bensen's. He had come from the
Concord School on horseback.
  At 4 P.M. Mr. Kirkegaard called by appoint'nt [appointment].
I ordered $42 worth of fruit & other
trees of [offf] him. Fine chorus of Robins
at evening.
Wea. [Weather] Sun. [Sunday] March 22, 1903 Ther. [Thermometer]
45 [degrees]
57 [degrees]
  A.M. Cloudy with showers of fine rain.
Sun out for an hour or so at noon. P.M. cloudy
but dry. Light E. [east] wind.
  Dr. C.W. Townsend spent the day with me. I met
him at W. Bedford [West Bedford]  at 10 A.M. After seeing the
cabins we walked to the farm visiting most of
the woods & opining by the way. After dinner
we went through Birch Field to Prescott's Pines & 
Birch Island. Townsend went back by 4.06 P.M.
train from Concord. I rambled about over the
farm until dark. Saw a Woodcock & 5 Whistlers
fly over the house.
Wea. [Weather] Monday 23 [March 23, 1903] Ther. [Thermometer]
44 [degrees]
50 [degrees]
  Cloudy with strong N.E. [northeast] wind and
steady, at times very heavy, rain.
  Gilbert & I left the farm at 7.15 A.M.
walking to Ball's Hill & taking the
8.13 train for Cambridge. I
spent the remainder of the
day in the Museum working
on the text of Cambridge Birds.
Mr. Blatchford called in P.M. to tell
me that a Mockingbird has just been 
seen in Roxbury by Miss Prince.
Garden alive with Robins at eve. [evening]
I think all our local birds are here.