Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Jan. 28, 1914 [January 28, 1914] Wea [Weather]
53 [degrees] Fine.
Sunny, calm, very warm. Snow &
ice mostly gone before night.
  3 Chickadees at suet, 2 Blue Jays
in lilacs, House Sparrows heard once
or twice afar off. Brown Thrasher started
from vine by Museum door by Gilbert at 5.30 P.M.
  Spent day in Museum working on
Duck Hawk story. After rewriting the
first page I added 3 pp., compiled,
however, from journal & note books.
Dick Dana came at 4 P.M. to stay
an hour. I enjoyed our talk exceedingly
although sorely afflicted at the time 
with neuralgic pain. It began to
manifest itself before he came & was
gone by 6 P.M. Because of it and of
my bronchial cough I had to miss the
annual meeting of Trustees of Public
Reservations at noon today and the
"We Dine" at Roland Thaxter's this
evening. Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] motored C. [Caroline Brewster] over to
Roxbury this forenoon. I signed a lot
of Estate cheques sent out by Galloupe at
10.30. Usual reading in hall 8 - 9.30 P.M.
 
Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Jan. 29, 1914 [January 29, 1914] Wea [Weather]
 Dull.
Cloudy, calm, very mild. Grass grounds
again bare & faintly green.
  Looking out bathroom window at 8 A.M.
I saw the Brown Thrasher flitting about in
lilacs within a yard of tray filled with
corn meal placed there on the 19th. I think
he must have been eating it. Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] says
he flew from the honeysuckle vine by door
of museum when he (Gilbert) left at 5.30
last evening. I see enough bird dung of large
size in & under it to indicate that the
Thrasher has spent several nights there of late.
  The [there] was a handsome [male] Hairy Woodpecker
in the lilacs at 1 P.M. He seemed about 
as fearless as a Chickadee permitting C. [Caroline Brewster]
& me to approach within 8 or 10 feet.
Three Chickadees about suet as usual.
  Worked all day on Duck Hawk story 
revising sheets for C. to copy in forenoon,
writing 4 pp. of fresh matter largely compiled
from journal, in afternoon. C. & E. [Elizabeth R. Simmons]
read aloud in hall this eve.