Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, April 8, 1919 Wea [Weather]
58 [degrees] Fine
Cloudless, windless, seasonably
warm. Grass very green everywhere
in city lawns, Squills in front of
Museum making wondrous show.
  Garden birds. 2 Robins singing at
morn & eve; a silent Song Sp. [Song Sparrow] &
twittering [female] Junco; [female] Downy [Downy Woodpecker] &
very small [female] Hairy [Hairy Woodpecker]; [female] Flicker;
12+ Bronzed Grackles one of
the [males] with a single white
feather in his wing paying court
to a [female] with his plumage all
puffed out, his wings & tail
half spread, his body & head
flattened to ground as he seemed
to be drawn slowly over it close
after his inamorata. All this
new to me. Bangs saw male Bluebird in Chauncey Smith Place.
  Spent latter part of forenoon
in garden with Percy, almost all
afternoon in Museum with
Outram Bangs. C. [Caroline Brewster] laid up 
with severe headache.
Dr. Stevens called to see me
at noon.

Cambridge. Mt. Auburn [Mount Auburn Cemetery] birds
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, April 9, 1919 Wea [Weather]
Fine
Clear with warm sunshine and
fresh, keen easterly wind.
  Garden birds. 2 Robins, a Song Sp. [Song Sparrow]
18+ House Sp. [House Sparrow], 15+ Grackles, [male and female] Hairy W. [Hairy Woodpecker]
both very small & tame. 2 Blue Jays,
sev. [several] Crows.
  Mt. Auburn birds. A Robin, 2 Song 
Sp. [Song Sparrow] [in full song], a Phoeboe [Pheobe] (under & about bridge
over old swan pond), Red wing Black-
bird [Red-winged Blackbird] ([male] singing at pond to W. [west] of tower)
5 Flickers widely scattered, in full
song one over Henry Purdie's grave;
8 or 10 Crow Blackbirds, 2 Starlings.
This little pond where I used to 
trap musk rats still retains something
of its old time aspect. Besides the
Redwing & a Song Sparrow, Leopard 
Frogs were singing there & 2 pairs
of tame Mallards swimming about.
  Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] motored me to Mt.
Auburn at 11 & to Harvard Square
at noon. Spent P.M. in garden
& Mrs. May Cunningham called on
me there.