Washington
Ther. [Thermometer] THURS. [Thursday] APRIL 22, 1909 Wea. [Weather]
Clear
A beautiful, warm sunny
day with a heavy thunder
shower about 2.30 P.M. 
Arrivals. Maryland Yellowthroat
singing at sunrise; Pine Linnet
singing & calling 11 A.M.
  At Dr. Allen's 8.45 - 9.30
A.M. and 3.30 to 5.30 P.M.
He put in a third bridge
in left side upper jaw.
  Wrote letters in our rooms
at Ontario from 10 to 1.
  Henry & I spent the
evening there talking. Chapman
arrived from New York to-day.
He is staying with Osgood.
Henry's aquaria very interesting.
He has 2 small eels which are
incessantly in motion. Also a tadpole
changing to a frog.

Washington. 
Ther. [Thermometer] FRI. [Friday] APRIL 23, 1909 Wea. [Weather]
Half stormy, half clear
Forenoon rainy; afternoon clear.
Arrivals. Nashville Warbler 1 [in full song]
Catbird 1 [in full song] House Wren 2 [in full song]
Whippoorwill 1 [in full song]
  To Dr. Allen's at 9.30. He filled
a tooth & kept me about an hour.
Returned to Ontario & wrote letters
until 5 P.M. when I went to
the Zoo. It was exquisitely peaceful
& beautiful there & the whole park
swarmed with birds. Cardinals
especially numerous their rich, tender
notes coming from every direction 
far & near. There are 4 Trumpeter
Swans in water fowl pond. I heard
their bugling calls many times. A
Whistling Swan with them. Heard the
Snow Geese & Cackling Geese call.