Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, April 28, 1918 Wea [Weather]
Perfect.
Brilliantly clear with warm 
sunlight and cool easterly breeze
alternately with intervals of dead
calm. Vegetation advancing fast.
Most of our city trees now green
with unfolded or unfolding leaflets &
some of the horse chestnuts in
nearly full leaf. Canoe birches,
norway, sugar and sycamore maples
in bloom throughout city streets &
gardens.
  Garden birds 2 Robins, 1 Hermit Thrush,
[female] ad [adult] Sapsucker in Austrian pine in Jungle,
5 Grackles, a Flicker; [male] [female] Blue Jays
beginning nest in hawthorn after
abandoning one in arbor vitae;
Chippy [Chipping Sparrow] singing in Hubbard Park &
another at Elmwood.
  Out walking 9.30-10.20 A.M.
Strolled up Highland St. [Street], down
Fayerweather, thence thro [through] Elmwood Ave
& Traill St. Called on the
Spelmans in late P.M. Harry S. Jr.
had seen a pair of Prairie Horned
Larks this P.M. at Belmont trotting
park. King who called this [?]
also saw them this P.M.

C. [Caroline Brewster] confined to bed all day. Dr. Stevens sent Miss Greenough to serve as nurse for her.

Cambridge. First Garden Toad trilling
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, April 29, 1918 Wea [Weather] 
Dull.
Cloudy with chill east wind.
Vegetation at stand still again.  
  Garden birds. 2 Robins, 3 Grackles,
6 or 7 House Sparrows. The pair
of Blue Jays working on their new
nest in hawthorn at rear of lilacs.
Both birds brought sticks to it &
worked them into the superstructure.
They got all of them in our old red
cedar, breaking them off dead branches
there. Chippy singing in Hubbard Pk. [Park]
  Mt. Auburn [Mount Auburn Cemetery] birds. 5 Robins,
2 Song Sparrows, 8 Starlings,
3 Grackles, 2 Flickers [in full song], 2 Yellow
rump Warblers [Yellow-rumped Warbler] [females], a Night Heron,
a Kingfisher & 2 Herring Gulls. ad. [adult]
The three species last named were at
large pond, the Heron perched high in
elm, the Gulls circling over the
pond one of them swooping down
repeatedly to strike at fish but
without success.
  Motored to Mt. Auburn at 9.30.
Then to Harvard Square where
I was in Dr. Andrew's chair above
an hour.

A Toad began trilling in our pond this evening & kept it up all night.