Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] TUES. DEC. 30, 1913 [Tuesday, December 30, 1913] Wea [Weather]
Fine
Clear, calm, frosty, the ground 
surface frozen.
  The Thrasher, 2 Blue Jays & a
Chickadee in the Garden. Squirrels in
partial hibernation now. For a week 
or more I have seen little or nothing of
them.
  Spent forenoon in Museum working
over a refractory paragraph in Goshawk
story which I had thought finished.
  At 1.30 Gilbert motored me first to
Harvard Sq. [Harvard Square], where [Aime?] witnessed my
application for renewal of motor license &
thence to Mus. Comp. Zool. [Museum of Comparative Zoology] where I
had a good talk with Henshaw & was
shown many interesting bird skins by
Outram Bangs. Walked home (4.30)
Galloupe sent out papers re Bassett at 1 P.M.
[margin] Henshaw showed me a 
[female] Downy Woodpecker picked up dead near Mus.
Comp. Zool [Museum of Comparative Zoology]
[to-day]. [/margin]
Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] WED. DEC. 31, 1913 [Wednesday, December 31, 1913] Wea [Weather]
A flock of Woodpeckers. Fair.
Thinly clouded sky; frosty air almost
or quite calm through entire day.
  Crows cawing at sunrise. About 10 A.M.
I was called from my desk by Percy to
see "a lot of strange birds in the elms" at
the head of our driveway. Some had left
it before I got there but all remained either
in it or in the neighboring lindens & apple trees
for several minutes. Rarely if ever have I
viewed a stranger gathering at such a time
& place for it included 3 Jays, 2 Flickers,
3 if not 4 Hairy Woodpeckers & a [male] Downy [Downy Woodpecker].
At first I saw only a pair of Hairys, the
[male] a handsome fellow, but finally there
were three of them on the same trunk together
& every one a female as far as I could
make out. Hence I believe there were 4 in all.
They were perfectly tame & I got very near
them. The 3 were in catalapa [catalpa] by Museum, later.
  Spent day in Museum writing letters
& cheques in forenoon, working on Red tail
Hawk story in afternoon & adding 2 pp. [2 pages].
  C. [Caroline] has just gone in town by motor with
Lizzy Fuller, Miss Bishop & Miss Swazy to see
the old year out & the new year in at St.Paul's.
