Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, April 14, 1918 Wea [Weather]
Fair
Forenoon cloudy; afternoon sunny
calm & warm. Ground mostly bare
of snow by night. Grass comes out
very green almost everywhere.
  Garden birds. A Solitary Robin was
all I saw within our grounds.
Near those of Sam Henshaw on 
Fayerweather St. a Flicker was shouting,
a Song Sparrow singing and half a 
dozen Grackles creaking at 5.15 P.M.
There was also a vocal Starling
whistling in the Kennedy place.
  Spent forenoon in den writing
cheques for bills. Miss Allyn
dined with me at 1.30 but I 
had finished my early dinner almost
one hour before that.
Two solitary walks in P.M.,
first up Brattle St. to Elmwood,
second up Highland.

Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, April 15, 1918 Wea [Weather]
68 [degrees] Perfect.
Brilliantly clear, very warm, almost or
quite windless. Altogether a rare spring
day of the very best type. Green grass
everywhere. Early shrubs already green
with tiny unfolded leaves. Horse chestnut
buds bursting. Larch trees green with 
young foliage.
  Garden birds. [male female] Robins; sev. [several] House
Sparrows; a Downy Woodpecker in Jungle;
3 Bronzed Grackles of which one, a 
male in high plumage, spent the day
moping on ground close to pond, his
eyes half closed & breathing heavily.
I could almost lay hands on him.
He must have suffered serious injury
in some way, perhaps by flying against
the plate glass Mus. [Museum] window just
beneath which I saw him first.
Spent most of day in house &
garden doing nothing save prune
a few shrubs. In P.M. took a 
motor ride with C. [Caroline Brewster] to Watertown
Waverley & Belmont.