Cambridge-Lexington.
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Jan. 6, 1916 [January 6, 1916] Wea [Weather] Fair
My first Evening Grosbeaks.
Brilliantly clear with fresh, cool westerly 
winds. Snow ice-encrusted but thawing in sun.
  In Garden - 8.15 A.M. Together at or near
suet hanging in Catalapa [catalpa] 2 ([male] [female]) White bellied
Nuthatches, a [male] Canada Nuthatch, a [male] Downy [Downy Woodpecker]
and a Chickadee; beneath this tree an imm. [immature]
Peabody bird & a dozen or more House Sparrows.
  Leaving home at 8:30 A.M. Walter Deane
& I went to Lexington by electric cars
which we left near Monroe Station walking
thence up a winding street to the hilltop
where Evening Grosbeaks have been seen of 
late feeding in a box elder. We met there
Dr. Tyler, his sister & several other ladies
equipped with opera glasses. The Grosbeaks,
numbering 11 to-day, all females, appeared
first about 10.15 A.M., when they fed awhile
on sumac berries, next about 11:15 when
they visited the box elder & spent half an
hour feasting on its seeds. Here I watched
& listened to them under most favorable
conditions. A full account of the experience
will be written in my journal.
  Home by 1 P.M. Walter & I looked over
Grosbeak skins after luncheon. Victrola
concert this evening for C.

 Telegram from Henry Henshaw at 10 P.M. saying he "plans to start 
for Bethel on Saturday" and will be with us over Sunday. This means another breakdown 

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, Jan. 7, 1916 [January 7, 1916] Wea [Weather]
Fine
Clear and cold with westerly wind.
Snow thawing little if at all even at noonday.
  In Garden: Two Robins, [male] & [female]; a Flicker,
a Peabody bird & some two dozen House Sparrows
I heard the [female] Robin call while writing at
my desk & looking out the Museum window
saw her within two yards of it eating
berries of the night shade [nightshade] vines that annually
straggle up among the rhododendrons.
Hitherto these berries have remained
untouched this year although usually 
for the most part devoured before winter
sets in, especially by Hermit Thrushes.
  This is about the height of the regular
hibernation season of Gray Squirrels.
I have not seen one of them oftener
than once a week of late.
  Devoted almost the entire day to 
writing out a full account in my journal
of yesterdays [yesterday's] experience with Evening Grosbeaks.
It covers eleven M.S. [manuscript] pages.
Usual Victrola concert & reading aloud in
hall this evening.