Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Mar. 17, 1915 [March 17, 1915] Wea [Weather]
Dull
Cloudy & chilly with light snow
fall - only just enough to whiten
ground. Most of it came in early
forenoon, melting as it struck.
  Garden birds: 10 Bronzed Grackles
appeared about 3 P.M. and spent 
an hour or more in Jungle, rambling
about everywhere when on ground as is their
usual custom at this season. At 
least two of them were females.
Jays about the place all day. I 
saw 5 at once. Two, apparently
a mated pair, spent much time
away rhododendrons under my
study windows & one of them sang
there. There were 8 or 10 Sparrows.
  I worked all day on the M.S.
written the past two days,
revising and to some extent
redrafting it.
Victrola music & reading in hall this eve.

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Mar. 18, 1915 [March 18, 1915] Wea [Weather]
Fine
Clear, cool, rather windy (N.E. [northeast])
Garden birds: 2 Purple Finches
(gray ones) in Parkman's apple tree, 4
Blue Jays, 5 Crows (flying over),
Downy Woodpecker ([female]), Crow Blackbird)
(heard), about 6 House Sparrows,
Nuthatch (carolinensis) calling woot-woot-woot, 6 A.M.
  Worked all day on Blue Jay
story begun this forenoon. Wrote
four pages of which three were
compiled from journal notes.
  John Nichols called just after
luncheon and stayed about
an hour. We talked mostly
about Jim Croswell [James G. Croswell] death
- and life. John has seen
much of him all along &
was with him one evening scarce
more than a week ago.
  We had Victrola music & 
reading in hall this eve. C. [Caroline Brewster] & E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] & I.