Wea. [Weather] Mon. [Monday] Feb. 20, 1905 [February 20, 1905] Ther. [Thermometer]
  Cloudy with a light fall of
damp snow in P.M. Mild.
  Spent day in Museum working on
Introduction to Cambridge Birds.
Raymond's agent called at 3 P.M.
bringing an accident insurance I
have just placed on my house etc here.
Big Nuttall meeting this evening, 25
present. I read selected passages from
Cambridge Birds. This & a discussion
took up the whole evening.
  Wea. [Weather] Tuesday 21 [February 21, 1905] Ther. [Thermometer]
  A beautiful spring-like day, sunny, 
mild calm; the snow settling fast.
It is still more than a foot deep.
  Spent day in Museum working 
on Cambridge Birds. No callers.
Six Purple Finches (4 red [males]) feeding
in Parkman's apples. A [female] Hairy [hairy woodpecker]
visited & ate of the suet.
Blue Jays screaming about the lawns.
We have them daily now.
Wea. [Weather] Wed. [Wednesday] Feb. 22, 1905 [February 22, 1905] Ther. [Thermometer]
20 [degrees]
  Cloudy and chilly with
light flurries of snow.
  Worked all the forenoon on an
article criticizing Brunner's "fake"
pictures of Grouse, Squirrels etc, in 
Country Life. Alice & Will Stone
dined with C. [Caroline] & me at 1.30.
Prof. Tausig [Taussig] called on me in the
afternoon & my old friend John Nichols
came in the evening. A Flicker & Jays
heard in the Garden.
  Wea. [Weather] Thursday 23 [February 23, 1905] Ther. [Thermometer]
  Clear, calm, not cold but frosty.
  Devoted the day to the article on
the Country Life pictures, finishing it.
F.H. Allen called at 2.30 P.M. bringing
a beautiful adult Kumlien's Gull
which he shot at Moon Island yesterday.
It makes the first record for Mass. [Massachusetts]
He gave me the bird which I shall send 
to Angell & Cash for mounting.
10 Purple Finches, three Flickers, three Downies
& several Chickadees assembled in the
Garden at 10 A.M. Also heard Blue Jays 
& Crows.

