delightful and exhilarating walk for the 
country traversed was new to me and most 
interesting & attractive while the morning was 
simply glorious. The crust is now strong 
enough to bear my weight everywhere in 
the fields and springs but I used 
snow shoes often entering the woods. 
  In the late afternoon the Doctor 
and i went to the Birches and had 
a fire at the Shack.
  Skunk trails were numerous everywhere 
in the Grover Hill region this morning as were 
on the occasion of my last visit (12th)
Bethel, Maine  March 4, 1904 (No [number] 2)
  I noted the following birds
 this morning: - 2 Chickadees and 4 Grosbeaks (2 red, 2 grey) 
near the house; 2 Chickadees & a White breasted Nuthatch 
in some scattered trees near the Mill; 4 Grosbeaks 
(1 red, 3 gray) and a [male] Hairy Woodpecker in an 
apple orchard at the crossroads just beyond the mill; 
a flock of 5 Chickadees accompanied by a Canada Nuthatch 
& another of 4 [Chickadees accompanied by a] Hudson Bay Tit, 
and a flock of about 30 Redpolls, in the Grover Hill Woods.
  Also heard 2 or more Crows cawing there - a pleasant
sound - and a second Nuthatch whirring. On my way