Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] THURS. JAN. 30, 1913 [Thursday, January 30, 1913] Wea [Weather]
Fine                                                                                                        
Clear, calm, mild. Ground white
with snow this morning but everywhere
bare & muddy by noon.

  In the Garden saw the White-throat [White-throated Sparrow]
& a Jay & heard a Chickadee, a
Downy [Downy Woodpecker] & a Flicker.

   C.[Caroline] type writing from my M.S. [manuscript] from
9.30 to 1.15, catching me up.
  I worked all day accomplishing
little or nothing in forenoon but
writing three full pages about the
Spotted Sandpiper in the course of 
the afternoon.
  C. read aloud from the Transcript
& C. & E. from Oliver Twist, this eve.
  Gilbert complaining of a sore throat
which he has had for over a month.   
Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] FRI. JAN. 31, 1913 [Friday, January 31, 1913] Wea [Weather]
56 [56 degrees] (at 1 P.M.)  Fine
Clear with strong westerly wind.
Almost uncomfortably warm.
Two snow drops [snowdrops] now in bloom on our bank.
  Standing just behind our house at
1 P.M. I saw, within a few minutes,
the Hudsonian Tit [Boreal Chickadee], 2 Black-cap Chickadees [Black-capped
Chickadees] [in a flock], 3 Downy Woodpeckers [females] [in a flock],
a [female] Red-bellied Nuthatch [Red-breasted Nuthatch], the White
throated Sparrow and 2 Jays [in a flock], all
in the lilacs, a Flicker on the lawn,
and 3 Crows [in a flock] flying overhead.
  Spent most of forenoon [writing?]
letters. Wrote 2 pp. [2 pages] on Black-bellied
Plover & 1 on Golden Plover in P.M.
  Charles R. Lamb came at 8 P.M.
bringing a nearly adult Kumlien's
Gull which he shot this forenoon near
Pigeon Cove. It was a beautiful
bird with the colors of all the
fleshy parts still unfaded.