Cambridge
Wea. [Weather] Sun. [Sunday] March 4, 1906 Ther. [Thermometer]
40 [degrees]
46 [degrees]
  A.M. cloudy with showers
P.M. clear.
  To early service at St. Johns
with C. [Caroline]. Afterwards escorted her
to the Thayers & returned alone.
Spent A.M. writing letters in
Museum. Charlie & Mary Greenough,
Frank Manning, & E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] dined
with C. [Caroline] & me at 1.30 & stayed
most of afternoon.

Wea. [Weather] Monday 5 [March 5, 1906] Ther. [Thermometer]
32 [degrees]
37 [degrees]
  Walked to Elmwood with C. [Caroline] after
breakfast. She took car there 
for Boston & I returned with Larry.
  Spent day in Museum working
on proof. Batchy [Charles Foster Batchelder] called in P.M.
Club meeting this evening -
Bent concluded reading of his
journal on Assiniboia trip.
Twenty members present.

Cambridge
Wea. [Weather] Tues. [Tuesday] March 6, 1906 Ther. [Thermometer]
19 [degrees]
36 [degrees]
  Clear with light W. [west] wind.
  Larry & I escorted C. [Caroline] through
Lowell Street to the cars just after 
breakfast. I spent the day, as usual,
on my proofs. About 6.20 P.M. Karl
called me out into the Garden to see
a pair of Screech Owls. I got within a
few yards of both. One in a cherry tree
was a red bird; the other, perched in a
fir, was in gray plumage. They have been
seen repeatedly before & C. [Caroline] heard one wailing
about 4 o'clock this morning.

Wea. [Weather] Wednesday 7 [March 7, 1906] Ther. [Thermometer]
26 [degrees]
  Clear with light W. [west] wind in early
morning. Afternoon cloudy & evening raining.
  Spent day in Museum working
on proofs Cambridge Birds.
4 [in a flock] Crow Blackbirds appeared in
the tops of our lindens about 
11 A.M. One left the others &
alighted in the catalopa [catalpa] by
the museum. C. [Caroline] & I went to
Boston at 6.30 & dined at 
the Jeffersons with Roland H. [Roland Hayward]
& Geo. V. Leverett.