Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Jan. 6, 1914 [January 6, 1914] Wea [Weather]
Fine.
  Clear, calm, warmer, snow melting
& sidewalks nearly freed from ice.
  Repeatedly of late, as well as last winter,
I have seen Blue Jays flying high over
our place to westward, shortly after sunrise.
I wonder if they come from the Observatory
grounds after spending the night there!
Four passing over this morning were in
sight at once well above the tallest elms.
3 Chickadees at suet. Saw no other birds
  The Broad-wing Hawk [Broad-winged Hawk] story is giving me
much trouble. What I write & am content with
one day seems hopelessly crude or stupid the
next so I have to write & rewrite over & over
again & am almost disheartened at times.
After thus working through most of to-day I
composed a fresh page towards night - and
shall probably discard or rewrite it to-morrow
  Shortly after dinner I dealt with the
Creeper found by Gilbert on the 2nd & made a
really good skin of it, to my surprise.
  Mary Greenough & Miss Swazey at lunch.
C. [Caroline Brewster] & E. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] reading aloud in hall after dinner.

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Jan. 7, 1914 [January 7, 1914] Wea [Weather]
Dull.
  More snow fell last night to depth of
an inch or so renewing slippery & sloppy
condition of city highways for although
sunless the day was mild.
   Two Blue Jays and 3 or 4 Chickadees
seen in Garden & Crows heard cawing in
lindens at sunrise.
  George Deane reports that a [female] Hairy W. [Hairy Woodpecker] is
roosting nightly in a hole he saw it make in
one of their trees. The branch had to be sawed off
a week or two ago. While this was going on the
bird seemed greatly troubled & kept flying about.
It returned to the cavity to sleep when a 
section of the trunk containing it was hung up
in the tree.
  Worked most of day on Broadwing H. [Broad-winged Hawk] story
revising it & adding about 2 pp.of fresh matter.
Went to Harvard Square at 4 to have
hair cut at Mark's. Back at 6.
Formal dinner at 7.15 for Dr. & Mrs. & Miss
Roumanier, the Dexters (of Concord) Catherine
Crowthers & Lizzy Fuller. It went off well
I thought. Most of them stayed until 10.