Bethel, Me.[Maine]
February 22,1904
Ther[Thermometer]
30[degrees] min.[minimum]
47[degrees] max.[maximum]

  Cloudy with snow (about 5 inches)
last night and light drizzling rain through
forenoon. This is the first considerable thaw of 
the winter here. The snow [wasted?] [perceptably?] [perceptibly?].
  Dr. G.[Gehring?] and I were out on snow shoes for
about an hour in the afternoon & ambling about through
the orchard, where we heard Pine Grosbeaks and a 
white-bellied nuthatch calling in the distance towards
the village, and afterwards visiting the Doctor's birch
-woods where we found the fresh tracks of a Partridge.
I was surprised at noting so few birds for the weather
was most favorable for them to be out in the [open?].