Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Mar. 5, 1917 [March 5, 1917] Wea [Weather]
Heavy snow storm Stormy
Snowing hard all day. Strong N.E. [northeast]
wind. Ground again covered everywhere
with snow to an average depth of
almost if no [not] quite twelve inches.
It lies fairly level hereabouts but
must be badly drifted in windswept
places.
  Garden birds. Only a few House
Sparrows & those acting as if they
would much prefer to be somewhere
else.
  Worked all day on Umbagog task.
Result a single M.S. page of commonplace 
matter relating to Rusty Blackbird.
It seems strange that I can no longer
ever have an interval of real
productiveness such as occasionally
rewarded no greater mental effort
not so very long ago.
  Nuttall Club this evening, poorly
attended because of storm. Townsend
read a M.S. article by someone else in
Canada, relating to birds eggs of successive sets.

Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Mar. 6, 1917 [March 6, 1917] Wea [Weather]
15 [degrees] min. Fine
Clear, & cold with fresh N.W. [northwest] wind.
New fallen snow 11 inches in average
depth. It is so hard packed & ice crusted
that our dogs scamper over it without
leaving a foot-print. Yesterday's storm
reported heaviest of entire winter. Freight
trains on Cape Cod stalled in drifts 8 to
12 feet deep. Good sleighing in city streets
No bare ground anywhere in sight.
  Garden birds. A single Redpoll seen
to alight in Jungle where it called
many times; a Crow heard cawing &
2 Jays screaming. Lots of House Sparrow
back again. Peabody bird last seen
on March 3.
  Working all day on Rusty Blackbird
story. It went rather better than
before & now covers two pages.
  Evening spent in hall E. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] reading
"Shirley" to C. [Caroline Brewster] & me.