Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Jan. 20, 1919 [January 20, 1919] Wea [Weather]
30 [degrees], 36 [degrees] Fine
Clear, calm, mild. Everything
looking & feeling more like late
autumn than mid winter.
Brattle St. & other sidewalks "bone dry"
& thronged at some hours with
well-dressed people including many
young mothers with baby carriages.
  Garden birds. A Chickadee seen
and a Jay heard.
  Spent day in Museum preparing
a sort of summary of bird notes
made last spring, summer & autumn
at Concord & Cambridge, to be
read this evening at Nuttall Club.
Walked up Brattle St. to beyond
Nichols house, in late P.M.
Miss Balch lunched with us.
Nuttall meeting well attended (by
18 members). The reading of my
notes took up more than an hour.
Townsend showed Hairy Woodpecker just
taken at Ipswich. He thought it might
be leucomelas [Dryobates villosus leucomelas] but it is not although
an exceptionally large bird.

Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Jan. 21, 1919 [January 21, 1919] Wea [Weather]
30 [degrees] 36 [degrees] Dull.
Dark cloudy, calm & mild,
but very chilly.
  Garden birds. Chickadee heard;
4 Blue Jays together in the lilacs.
  Spent most of day in
Museum, writing letters & a
few bird notes. C. [Caroline Brewster] came up
in the Ford car at 11 and
returned in Gambel's at 3.30
She & I visited the hen house
& got a fresh-laid egg there.
There is nearly always one daily
now but never more.
  We had Victrola music after
luncheon, listening to it in
the hall where a bright fire
was blazing.
  After C. had departed I
walked up Brattle Street to
beyond Elmwood with Walter
Deane. E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] read only from 
the Transcript this evening.