Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Mar. 13, 1917 [March 13, 1917] Wea [Weather]
Fine
Cloudless with warm sunshine but
cool & blustering north-west wind
- altogether a typical March day.
Through midday hours the sun
made havoc with both snow & ice
exposing more & more bare ground
until by night it almost equaled
that still snow-covered throughout
our garden & lawn.
  Garden birds.  A Cedar Waxwing, a White-
throat Sparrow [White-throated Sparrow], about 20 House Sparrows
& several Crows.
  The Cedar bird was plainly seen just after
it had alighted with 4 other birds in a
cherry tree. The other birds were probably
Waxwings also but that cannot be certainly
affirmed for every one took flight before I
could get a fair sight of them.
  Worked all day in Museum. Pulled 
out a lot of bird skins to be given to
Charleston (S.C.) Museum [The Charleston Museum, South Carolina]. Also pushed
on Rusty Blackbird story a trifle.
  Evening reading in hall. "Shirley" finished.

Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Mar. 14, 1917 [March 14, 1917] Wea [Weather]
40 [degrees] Dull
A rosy sunrise followed by increasing
cloudiness with light rain & snow
falling in late P.M. Snow & ice
fast turning into slush. More than
one quarter of lawn & jungle bare.
  Garden birds. About a dozen House
Sparrows; I noticed nothing else.
  Had to spend forenoon writing
letters. Worked on Rusty Blackbird
story in afternoon, describing the
nest & eggs taken by Harrington
near Lake House in June 1876.
That is now upwards of forty year
ago and poor Harrington must
have been in his grave at least half
that length of time but the eggs &
nest look as fresh as ever and I
still remember how they interested
all of us when he brought them
in from the "savins" behind Abbott's mills.
  E. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] read aloud to C. [Caroline Brewster] & me this eve
from an interesting book describing
Penn. State Constabulary.
