Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, Jan. 16, 1916 [January 16, 1916] Wea [Weather]
30 [degrees] Fine
  Clear and mild again with little
or no wind. Entire face of country
encrusted with icy snow. This may
rather be called snow ice over Charles
River opposite the foot of Sparks St.
whence I saw at least 1000 people 
skating this afternoon.
  In Garden: A Red-bellied Nuthatch [Red-breasted Nuthatch]
heard, a [male] Downy [Downy Woodpecker] at suet, a 
Peabody bird with House Sparrows in
shrubbery at rear of house. The
alien birds crowd eagerly about my
fan tail Pigeons [fantail Pigeons] when I feed them
under the Catalapa tree [catalpa tree] but as I 
throw out no more grain than the
Pigeons will surely eat & spread
this over a small space only the
Sparrows do not get much of it.
  Spent forenoon in Museum writing letters.
Alice Allyn, Mary & George Deane & Mrs.
Melvin dined with E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] & me on a Turkey
raised on our Farm. We had Victrola 
concert afterward. C. [Caroline] up stairs [upstairs].

Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Jan. 17, 1916 [January 17, 1916] Wea [Weather]
9 [degrees], 10 [degrees] Fine
Clear and cold. High N.W. [northwest] wind.
  In Garden: At 9.30 A.M. Peabody bird
heard chirping, a dozen or more House 
Sparrows flitting about lilacs, a [male] Downy [Downy Woodpecker]
in Jungle, a Blue Jay [in Jungle], 3 [male] Flickers
together, at first in Parkman's apple tree,
afterwards in decrepit old pear tree
where they remained fifteen or twenty 
minutes. One bird picked vigorously
at the bark of this tree which, I 
notice, shows fresh marks of such
attacks in various places. Probably
we shall be forced to wrap the trunks
of our pear trees with burlap as has 
been necessary in former years.
  Batchelder & Bangs arrived about 10 A.M.
to look up Newfoundland specimens in my
collection. I was with them all forenoon.
Shortly after 2 P.M. Mr. Whittle & Miss Granger
came by appointment to look at series of
birds. They did not depart until 5 P.M.
Nuttall Club meeting this eve. Dr. Tyler read
paper on White-breasted Nuthatch & another on
[voices?] of nocturnal migrating birds.