1903
Dec.11 - 17
Bethel, Maine
  During this week, which I spent at Bethel, Maine, Dr. Gehring
and I were tramping about in the woods the greater part of
every forenoon. The weather was mild on the 11th 12th and 13th and
we saw a good many birds on those days. It turned cold on
the 14th after which the woods seemed almost barren of bird life.
The highest temperature during the stay was 47degrees on the 13th, the
lowest minus 4 degrees on the 15th. The entire country was covered
uniformly with about 10 inches of snow which had fallen on
the 9th. My bird list is as follows:-
  1. Parus atricapillus. - December 11: heard; December 12: 1 in a flock; December 13: 1 in a flock; December 14: 8 in a flock, 4 in a flock, 5 in a flock in company with 2 Parus hudsonicus & 2 Regulus satrapa. Observed chiefly in dense evergreen woods but also seen in open places where weather was still & mild.
  2. Parus hudsonicus. - December 14: 2 in a flock in company with 5 Parus atricapillus & 2 Regulus satrapa in birches & balsams; December 17: 1 heard in tall dense fir woods, apparently above. 
  3. Regulus satrapa. -  December 12: 1 heard in dense firs; December 14: 2 in a flock, 1 in a flock, firs and arbor vitae; December 15: 1 heard in firs; December 16: 4 heard in firs; December 17: 3 heard in firs
  4. Certhia f. americana? December 14: screep heard 5 or 6 times among firs. I am very sure the bird was a Creeper but it may have been a Golden-crest.
  5. Pinicolor canadensis. - December 11: 1 gray bird perched on topmost shoot of tall fir, Dr. G's woods.; December 12: 1 gray bird. Same situation, same woods. (Small flocks seen earlier by Dr. G.)
  6. Aegiothus linaria. - December 11: 32 in a flock c., 18 in a flock c.; December 12: 12 in a flock;  December 13: heard; December 14: 9 in a flock; December 16: 15 in a flock c.; December 17: 15 in a flock. Feeding chiefly on seeds of alder and gray birch, also in larches.
  7. Spizella monticola. - December 14: 1 heard chirping many times & very distinctly in thicket of alders & birches near Dr. G's house. alders near house.
  8. Bonasa u. togata.- December 16: 2 birds started by Mr. Reed. I saw 6 or 8 fresh trails & found feathers of crop of a bird killed in hole in snow & eaten on the spot, evidently by either a Hawk or Owl as the snow bore no traces of mammal footprints all the tail and wing feathers had been pulled out. Save the feathers & crop nothing remained. 
   (Perisoreus canadensis.- Dr Gerhing saw a Canada Jay in his birch woods on  and two birds there together a few days later. They remained about a month.)
  During my stay no Nuthatches of either kind, no
Blue Jays, no Woodpeckers and no Hawks or Owls were noted.
The feathers off a Partridge evidently killed by either Hawk or Owl
were found, however, as I have noted under Bonasa above.