Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Jan. 2, 1918 [January 2, 1918] Wea [Weather]
-5 [degrees], +8 [degrees] Fair
Forenoon sunny, afternoon cloudy.
Little or no wind. Air exceeding chilly.
Indeed it seemed scarce less cold out of
doors than during recent periods of
lower temperatures which within we
are still forced to burn both wood
and coal unsparingly in order to
keep only moderately comfortable while
even that cannot be achieved except in
a very few rooms. Of these my Museum
study is not one for its furnace
register & fire place combined have 
failed to supply all the heat
which was desired or even enough
to spare me frequent shivering.
  Garden birds. Several Chickadees;
20+ House Sparrows; a Crow &
a Jay heard but not seen.
  Spent day in Museum. Copied
bird notes from Diary into Garden 
book & worked awhile on Cat article
for Bird Lore.

Cambridge Lovell Thompson &
Charles F. Walcott call on me
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Jan. 3, 1918 [January 3, 1918] Wea [Weather]
-4 [degrees], +10 [degrees] Dull
Cloudy with chill easterly wind and
a few snow flakes falling every now 
and then.
  Garden birds. Several Chickadees flitting
through Jungle. A dull-plumaged
White-throated Sparrow, no doubt the 
self-same bird here all last month,
was feeding on bread crumbs in our
clothes yard this morning, with numerous
House Sparrows. Crows are evidently
hard put to it for food. We saw
one on the snow-clad lawn this
morning eagerly pecking at something.
A single Jay in the Jungle.
  Copied bird notes into Garden book
in forenoon & worked on article for
Bird Lore in afternoon.
  My boy friends Lovell Thompson
and Charles F. Walcott called in
mid P.M. to report the finding of
a Red Crossbill's nest with 2 eggs, at
Marblehead, last April (22 d) & the
common occurrence in Fresh P. Marshes
last June of Sora [Sora Rail] & Virginia Rails & 
Bitterns.