Ther [Thermometer] [delete] THURS.[/delete] DEC. [December] [delete] 18 [/delete] [Saturday, December 20, 1913] Wea [Weather]
[Through inadvertence I wrote my records
for Dec.18 [December 18] under Dec. 20 [December 20]. Hence this page must
be used for the Dec. 20 entries.]
Clear, calm, frosty. A fine day
not over cold.
  Brown Thrasher in lilacs, scratching
away fallen leaves. Several
House Sparrows. No other birds noted
in the Garden.
  Spent day in Museum working
on Goshawk story. Wrote 3
fresh pages based, however, on 
matter in journals partly used
verbatim but for the most part
recast. Gilbert [Robert Alexander Gilbert] went to Concord
by train for supplies from the Farm.
C. [Caroline] & E.R.S. [Elizabeth R.Simmons] in town. We all sat
in hall after supper, reading aloud.
"Sun", the Chow puppy, full of mischief.
Cambridge.
Ther. [Thermometer] FRI. DEC. 19, 1913 [Friday, December 19, 1913] Wea [Weather]
Fine
Clear & crisply cold with light
northerly wind.
  Just before 1 P.M. I saw in the
Garden, at the edge of the Jungle,
a Brown Thrasher, a [male] Hairy Woodpecker
and 3 Blue Jays. There were also several
Chickadees coming to the suet.
  Spent most of forenoon & part of
afternoon working on Goshawk story.
After rewriting most of what was 
written yesterday I composed a fresh
page or two. Dr. Phillips came at 2 P.M.
to look up references in Forest & Stream.
I had to leave him half an hour
later when Gilbert motored me first
to Becker's, where I bought some plants
& thence to Harvard Square.
Spent a solitary evening, C., & E.R.S. 
having gone to their Bee.