Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer]  Saturday, Jan. 22, 1916 [January 22, 1916]  Wea [Weather]
66 [degrees] (Boston official rec.) [Boston official record] Dull
Cloudy & very warm. Strong S.W. [southwest] wind.
Snow & ice vanishing fast. Bare
ground showing in places & sleighing
quite ruined.
  In Garden: A Chickadee, a [male] Red-bellied
Nuthatch [Red-breasted Nuthatch] & a [male] Downy Woodpecker visited
suet in quick succession about 9.30 A.M.
The Chickadee gave the phoe-bee notes
loud & clear several times. I heard
a Peabody bird in the lilacs & 
saw a Crow alight on the lawn
where he remained for several moments
pecking at something in the snow.
  Mrs. D. Worcester telephoned me at noon
to say that she had seen 2 [male] & 6 [female] Evening Grosbeaks
at Lexington this morning feeding on
fruit of flowering apple. Crowd of people watching.
Chas. R. Lamb [Charles R. Lamb] shot two Iceland Gulls off
Rockport. He brought them down for me to
see this evening. One is a beautiful & fully
adult bird with blue [mantle?] & pale pea green
bill & yellow irises (very pale yellow).
  I worked in Museum all day
cataloguing & labeling skins & eggs.
Dick Dana called in mid P.M. staying
about an hour.

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer]  Sunday, Jan. 23, 1916 [January 23, 1916] Wea [Weather]
40 [degrees] Fine
  Brilliantly clear with fresh westerly
wind which seemed just agreeably cool.
  Altogether a rather springlike day
impressing one all the more so because
practically all the snow and ice has
disappeared within the past forty eight
hours, restoring to view wide expanses
of bare ground; grass decidedly 
green over much of our lawn.
  In Garden: A Chickadee, 3
dull-colored Peabody birds keeping
together, mostly among shrubbery;
a [male] Downy [Downy Woodpecker] in the lilacs spending
a lot of time in what seemed an
utterly fruitless search for grubs in
the upright slender shoots which he
tapped at persistently; 2 Crows
on lawn eating pieces of bread.
Townsend [Dr. Charles W. Townsend] telephoned that he
had seen the Grosbeaks (2 [males], 6 [females]) at 
Lexington 11-12 A.M.
  I wrote letters in Museum all day.
Lizzy Fuller & Mary Cobb dined with 
E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] & me. C. confined to her chamber
by a grippy cold.