1906.
Jan'y 27
  The weather continues mild over the entire East.
So far as I can learn there is little or no snow
anywhere south of the Canada border. Coming from
Washington on January 25th I noticed that the grass
was green and the ponds (even the smallest ones) free
from ice as far north as Southern Connecticut. In
Cambridge the leaves show faint shades of green &
the roads are dry and dusty. There is little frost in
the ground. Things look much as they do in mid
November. Indeed the entire winter thus far may
be aptly described as a prolonged November. The
warmest weather was on January 21 when the thermometer
rose to 69 degrees. The trolley lines ran many open cars
that day and some of our neighbors (among them Mrs.
Coolidge who is over eighty years of age) were seen sitting
on their piazzas without overcoats or outer wraps of any kind.
Birds have been exceedingly scarce, as is nearly always
the case during mild winters.
  My foreman, Daniel Jones, who came from Concord
to-day reports much local excitement there over a supposed
Wild Cat which has been seen of late by Mr. Abbott Lawrence
and his son Gardiner Lawrence near their house and by
Bensen in the Green Field. They describe it as a grayish
animal with a bob tail. It is supposed to be author
of a loud, prolonged, Owl-like cry which has been heard
repeatedly at evening in the woods behind Lawrence's.
Wild Cat (!) at Concord
  Jones also tells me that he saw a Deer last Tuesday (23rd)
feeding in Lawrence's field opposite the Bungalow.
Deer
  Mr. De Merritt tells me that he saw a Wilson's Snipe
on the evening of January 23rd flying over one of the
ponds in the Back Bay Fens.
Snipe in Boston