Bethel, Me.[Maine]
February 19, 1904
  Cloudy, calm, milder, with fine dry snow
falling steadily (but not heavily) all day. Ther.[Thermometer] 8[degrees] - 20[degrees].
  Off alone on snow shoes 11 - 12 a.m. following the
trail around the woods below the house. Spent 15 or 20 minutes
watching a large flock of Redpolls among [?] birches at edge of 
these woods. Counted 82 birds of which only 4 were rosy breasted.
After spending about 10 minutes in the tops of two gray birches they
descended to the snow to pick up the fallen seeds moving about
in devious courses wading & wallowing in the deep soft snow. Saw them
afterwards in larches eating the buds. Saw [male] Hairy Woodpecker
in our orchard. It was eating the pulp of a frozen apple [that?] still
clung to the tree. I got within 10 or 15 yds.[yards] of it. The red on
head was divided into two occipital patches which showed
conspicuously.