Bethel - Cambridge.
Ther. [Thermometer] Mon. Mar. 15, 1909 [Monday, March 15, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
20º  [20 degrees]  Clear.
A cool, brilliant day with cloudless
sky & light W. [west] wind.
  Left Bethel at 9.06 A.M. &
reached Boston at 3.30 P.M. Only
15 m. [15 minutes] for lunch at Portland. Saw
hundreds upon hundreds of Crows
many of them flying north. They
were most numerous Paris - Portland.
Saw about 40 Golden-eyes [Goldeneyes] rise
from water, N. [north] Side Portland. They
mounted almost as straight & high
as Black Ducks. Miss Butler
of Jamaica Plain came back with
me. I sat & talked with her
most of way. Shy but intelligent girl.
Old house seemed lonely enough when 
I reached it. But Purdie came at
5 to spend night & we had good
Nuttall Club meeting 8-11 P.M.
Cambridge.
Ther. [Thermometer] Tues. [Tuesday] Mar. [March] 16, 1909 Wea. [Weather]
15º  [15 degrees] Part. cloudy [Partly cloudy.]
Early morn [Early morning] sunny & frosty. Afternoon
cloudy & warmer. Light S.W. [southwest] wind.
  Purdie & I went to Fresh Pond at
9 A.M. It was chiefly open to
skimmed over with thin black ice
in places. 31 Gooseanders in water
& 84 Black Ducks on ice, all
well out. Saw Gooseanders get
through courting performances many
times. Not unlike Whistlers in some
respects but less grotesque & interesting.
  Heard a Song Sparrow singing feebly,
a Flicker shouting lustily, a
Blue bird [Bluebird] calling faintly. Did not
see a single [small?] bird. No snow,
grass green in sunny places.
  Spent day in Museum writing letters
& packing lots of books for Charleston Mass. [Charlestown, Massachusetts?]
James drove the horse back to Concord.
[margin] No birds of any kind in the Garden. [/margin]