Cambridge
Ther. [Thermometer] WED. MAR.17, 1909 [Wednesday, March 17. 1909] Wea. [Weather]
  24 [24 degrees]   Clear.
A brilliant frosty day, fresh W. [west] wind
  Purdie & I went to Fresh Pond
just after Breakfast: New ice all
gone & pond ruffled by wind.
Swimming in it were about 60
Herring Gulls, 60 Black Ducks,
and 19 Gooseanders, 11 of them
old drakes & 8 [females?] or [?]
[males?]. There was also a fine
drake Bald - pate [Drake Baldpate]. I saw him
both on wing & in water, always
with Black Ducks. Heard a
Meadow Lark [Meadowlark] singing & a Flicker
shouting near fountain. Redwings [Red-wing Blackbirds]
singing in Bright's [?]. Got back
at 10.30. Spent rest of day
in Museum writing letters & notes.
  Purdie & I sat in den through
evening, talking. Howard [W----?].
  I can have his Goose pictures $250.
[margin] [male] [female]  Bronzed Grackle in lindens [9 Gulls?] [/margin]
Cambridge - Concord
Ther. [Thermometer] THURS. MAR. 18, 1909 [Thursday, March 18, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
18 [18 degrees]  Clear
Harsh March day, cold with
raging N.W. [northwest] wind.
Gilbert [Robert Alexander Gilbert] & I with "Larry" dog took
8.09 Fitchburg R.R. train to
Concord. James met us at station
with "Betty". We stopped in town
for provision fully our house -
The drive to Farm was cold &
cheerless. Roads rutted & hard
frozen. No snow visable [visible]. Country
brown & desolate looking. River
open & very low for season being
within its banks as far as I could
see from Flint's bridge. Spent
forenoon in house getting things in order.
Took walk to Birch Field Ritchie's
place & Berry Pasture in early P.M.
Saw big flock of Redpolls, 2 Chickadees
7 Robins [in a flock], 3 or 4 Crows & a large Hawk.
Pat began work here to-day.