Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] MON. FEB. 17, 1913 Monday, February 17, 1913 Wea [Weather]
I resume smoking.   Fair
Partly sunny, partly cloudy; calm, mild.
An inch or more of damp snow fall last night.

  Hudsonian Tit visited suet at [blank.]
Black-cap Chicakdee [Black-capped Chickadee] at suet once.
Nuthatch seen in Catalopa [Catalpa] early morning
[Female] Downy [Downy Woodpecker] seen within a yard of suet that
hangs by my window. Flicker seen.
  Blue Jays flying back & forth, screaming,
all forenoon. At 9 A.M. no less than
8 assembled in top of tallest tree (poplar)
in Jungle where they remained several
minutes bowing to one another & uttering
the bell notes. Gray Squirrels very active.
  Spent most of day revising Sol. Sandpiper[Solitary Sandpiper]
story. C. [Caroline] copied it in forenoon. Nuttall
meeting. Dr. Tyler on Martins, Robins, & House 
Sparrows. Very good. I stopped smoking
last Friday & began again this after noon.
Only effect of cessation was difficulty in
composing in writing. I had no difficulty in
conversation & no nervous depression.
Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] TUES., FEB. 18, 1913  [Tuesday, February 18, 1913] Wea [Weather]
16º [16 degrees] Fine
Clear & cold with high north wind.

  Two Juncos feeding on seed put out 
for them in the garden. No other birds
except House Sparrows noted there.
  
  Began Spruce Grouse story this
morning & worked on it all day
writing only two pages. It bids 
fair to be a difficult & complex
subject about which much 
must be said.
 
  C. [Caroline] & I dined at 61 Sparks Street
with Miss Bishop & her friend
Mrs. Munger at 7 o'clock this
evening. We stayed until 9.30.
Mrs. Munger says Upland Plover
bred abundantly about Lake Sunapee
N.H. [New Hampshire] up to about 1906 but have since
almost ceased to reappear there.