Jan'y 13
Arlington Height & Belmont, Mass
  Calm, the forenoon cloudy with light snow
falling most of the time but not "making" much.
Afternoon clear. Ther 14[degrees] at sunrise.
  To Arlington Heights at 9 A.M. driving in a 
sleigh up Brattle Street, around behind Fresh pond, 
through Belmont, and up Prospect Street to the
fork in the road above Marsh's. Here I left George
to look after the horse and entering the cedar
&[and] pitch pine woods on the left walked through
them to the maple swamp and back along the
northern edge to the road. Saw only a single
Knight (which I shot) and a flock of five Chickadees.
Crossing the road I circled around the pine clad
ledges to Hornbeam Run and back past Prairie
Warbler Spring. Jays were screaming among the 
pines and I heard Grosbeaks several times but
as I could not find them concluded that they
were merely passing overhead. There seems to be
very little feed for them in this locality the crop
of cedar berries being very scanty. A remarkably
tame Flicker, a solitary Chickadee tapping exactly
like a Woodpecker, and a flock of five Kinglets
(satrapa) were all the birds the I saw during this
walk.
  These woods were everywhere tracked by dogs. I
saw one a big, black fellow [nosing?] along in
the snow apparently hunting. There were a few 
Mouse tracks also but no signs of Foxes, Rabbits,
Squirrels, Grouse or Quail.
[margin]Tracks in
the snow[/margin]