Bethel-Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer]  SAT. NOV. 22, 1913 [Saturday, November 22, 1913]  Wea [Weather]
Fair
Sunny but hazy. Dead calm. Mild.
  Left Bethel by 9 A.M. train. Looked
out car window most of way to
Portland on a landscape bearing every
appearance of mid autumn. Everywhere
green fields (vivid green in places) with
cattle, sheep & horses grazing. No trace
of snow or ice anywhere. Roads dry
& smooth. Apple, elm & cherry tree
loaded with Browntail [brown-tail] nests. No birds
save one Jay & 2 Meadow Larks (at
Deering). Shallow bay rear of Portland which
R.R. fr.[from] Rochester (or Portland) Junction skirts was
fairly packed to-day, as on 15th, with 
Black Ducks. Must have been 500 there.
  Took 12.10 train for Boston. Read
most of way. Country looked very
green & smiling. Farmers ploughing &
young people playing tennis. Gilbert [Robert Alexander Gilbert]
met me at North Station. Got home
about 4.30.  C.[Caroline] & E.{Elizabeth Simmons?] on hand to welcome
me. The Misses Chapman called after
dinner. Mary Deane telephoned that
Ruthven is with her at the old home.
Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer]  SUN.NOV. 23, 1913 [Sunday, November 23. 1913]  Wea [Weather]
Fair
Barred Owl seen by H. M. Spelman's    
children in Choate place. [?] its [?] in Garden
Partly cloudy, mostly sunny but hazy.
Very warm with light S.W. [southwest] wind.
  In the Garden found at 9 A.M. an
interesting lot of birds. Feeding on birch seeds
in Birch Grove, were first 2 Pine Linnets,
next a Goldfinch, finally eight Redpolls 2
of which had faintly rosy breasts. All eight
& looked very large & thick-billed & I think
all were [?]. I saw them close in clear
sunlight & watched them many minutes.
Soon after this a Brown Thresher flew out of
rhododendrons at rear of Museum to Jungle
where I saw it repeatedly later in day. There
were 2 Golden-Crests [2 Golden-crowned Kinglets] & at least one Chickadee
about all day & Crows were cawing & Jays
screaming at intervals, then fore[?] in early
morning. For a long time I was puzzled as to
the authorship of a full, rich Warbler-like
chirp almost precisely like that of our Yellow Warbler.
Although it frequently came from near at hand
I could find no Warbler of any kind. At length
I traced it to a White-throated Sparrow & saw
him [?] its many times. He was in plumage
betwixt immature & adult & was a very 
tame & confiding bird.
Met C. at St. John's at 10.40 Fine sermon
by Dr. Hodges. Alice Allyn, Alice Stone &
Lois Howe dined with us & spent most
of afternoon. Called on Ruthven Deane
at old house 8 P.M. staying until 10.30
He gave me full account of recent
A.O.U. Meeting. Betty Almy & Anna
Griswold in runaway accident . Latter hurt.