
Song & Fox Sparrows. Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Mar. 5, 1919 [March 5, 1919] Wea [Weather] 
56 [degrees] Fair
Early morning sunny. Clouds
gathering later. Light rain
at evening. Spring-like day.
Dozens of snow drops & one white
crocus in full bloom. Blue flower
buds of several squills about to open.
  Garden birds: - 2 Chickadees &
3 [1 male, 2 females] Downies [Downy Woodpeckers] at suet. A Song
Sparrow singing brokenly in
lilacs; 2 Fox Sparrows scratching
among fallen leaves in birch grove;
3 Jays in Jungle; 40+ House
Sparrows about poultry yard;
Crows cawing afar off.
  Did not leave my bed until
11 A.M. Out in Garden by
12.15 to spend half hour
there. It was so warm I
needed no overcoat while standing
still or moving slowly about.
Wrote letters in P.M.
Percy had our coal supply put
in today, 35 tons furnace,
20 tons range, @ $11 per ton.

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Mar. 6, 1919 [March 6, 1919] Wea [Weather]
30 [degrees] Fine
Billiantly [brilliantly] clear with keen &
rather frosty air but little or
no wind.
  Garden birds. 7 Robins, "five
of them handsome, red-breasted
cock birds", seen in the Garden
by Percy about 7 A.M. I
could find there later only one
freshly-arrived migrant &
that a [male] Junco who sang 
a little in faint undertones
now & then. There were
also a [male] Hairy & a [female] Downy 
Woodpecker, the usual horde
of House Sparrows, a couple
of Jays & 6 Crows on wing. 
  Up & dressed by 10.30. Wrote
letters in Museum until noon
when C. [Caroline Brewster] arrived. After
lunch we got 7 eggs in our
hen house & then visited the
Spelmans. C. spent the night
here. We had Victrola music
& reading aloud after supper.