Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] [delete]SAT.[/delete] Thursday, DEC.18, 1913 [Thursday, December 18, 1913] Wea [Weather]
[See page intended for Dec.18]                    Fair
[on which entries for Dec. 20 have been made]                                                                                                          
Partly cloudy, mostly sunny. Colder
with light northerly wind.
  The Garden apparently birdless
save for the appearance of a solitary
Crow on wing.
  At my usual task all day in
Museum. Revised Cooper's Hawk story
which C.[Caroline] type copied and began
on Goshawk story writing 2 pp. [2 pages].
Phelan called in mid afternoon 
He says John Nesbitt is very ill.
Harry Spelman came at 9.45 P.M.
and spent about an hour
chatting in my den. Before that
C. & E.R.S.[Elizabeth R. Simmons] were with me in
the hall reading aloud.
Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] SUN. DEC. 21, 1913 [Sunday, December 21, 1913] Wea [Weather] 
Fine
Indian-summerlike weather, clear,
warm & windless. Dandelions in bloom
by dosens [dozens] & people without over coats sitting
on benches & running motor cars. 
In Garden noted sev. [several] Chickadees, the Junco,
Brown Thrasher & Peabody bird, 3 Crows,
a Jay, Flicker & Hairy Woodpecker. At
head [of] Sparks St. heard a White bellied Nuthatch [White-breasted Nuthatch]
& a Brown Creeper. At Fresh Pond
saw 72 Black Ducks, 3 Whistler drakes [Whistling-ducks] 
2 ad.[males] [adult] [males] of the Red head & about 25
Gulls, in Cambridge Nook. Near middle
of pond were about 25 Gooseanders [Goosanders]
(six of them old drakes) & 2 Blacks [Black Ducks].
  C. went in town to church so I called
for Walter Deane & started with him for
Fresh Pond at 11. As we were waiting for
a car on Huron Ave. Mary Deane joined
us by chance. We reached the pond soon
after this. After watching the birds in
Cambridge Nook awhile we went to the
outlook at Hemlock Point & sat there
about an hour without feeling the least chill.
The pond, meanwhile, was as smooth as 
glass. Got home at 1, walking back. Miss 
Allyn [Miss Alice Allyn] at dinner. I work on Goshawk story in P.M.