Wea. [Weather] FRI. [Friday] MARCH 24, 1905 Ther. [Thermometer]
27 degrees
46 degrees
  Cloudy, calm.                                    
  Worked all day on Introduction,
  No callers.
  From 2 to 4 A.M. as I was lying
awake I heard at short intervals a
low rolling call like, yet unlike, that
of a Screech Owl. I have heard it before of
late & earlier in the winter, too.
  A Robin singing brokenly at evening
A Song & Fox Sparrow sang about
woods. (After writing this I heard a
Robin in full song. The Owl was calling
again 10-11 P.M)
  Wea. [Weather] SATURDAY 25 [March 25, 1905] Ther. [Thermometer]
52 [degrees]
  First snowdrops in front of Museum.
  Cloudy & warm with light         
rain and little or no wind (March 
has been a particularly windless month
this year).
  Worked on the Introduction all
day. It is now all but finished &
it makes over fifty pages.
  A Fox Sparrow & a Song Sparrow
singing all day in the Garden. Four
or five Robins there. One of them
sang a little at daybreak & gloriously
at evening.
  Lottie Kettell arrived to-night.
  Wea. [Weather] SUN. [Sunday] MARCH 26, 1905 Ther. [Thermometer]
40 [degrees]
56 [degrees]
  Clear, calm warm. A
perfect day. Snow practically, all gone.
  Wrote letters all forenoon. Mr. Leverett
& Sam Henshaw dined with us &
stayed until 5 P.M. when Frazar
called to consult me about a distant
trip with young Higginson.
  Glorious bird music in the Garden.
Purple Finches, a Fox Sparrow, a Song
Sparrow, a Chickadee, a Flicker, several
Robins, & 2 Bluebirds singing in early morning.
A [female] Hairy at the suet 4 [in a flock] Grackles.
  Wea. [Weather] MONDAY 27 [March 27, 1905] Ther. [Thermometer]
42 [degrees]
56 [degrees]
  First yellow crocus at Museum 
Cloudy, calm, mild                    
Snow & ice almost wholly gone.
  Worked nearly all day on the
Introduction to Cambridge Birds. It is
very nearly done.
  C. & I walked to Elmwood after
lunch. Grackles at Elmwood & elsewhere
Fox Sparrow, Song Sparrow & Purple
Finch singing in garden. Robins all 
here now.
  My new foreman James called in P.M
I like him.