Bethel, Maine.
1902.
January 5.
  Sunny and mild with fleecy clouds drifting slowly before
a light west wind. Ther. 16 degrees at sunrise, 28 degrees at 2 P.M.
  At 10 A.M. Dr. Gehring, Miss Anna Almy and I started for
a walk. On snow shoes we crossed the clearing south of the
house and entered the woods beyond where we found what was
probably the same flock of birds that we saw there yesterday.
It consisted, this morning, of three Chickadees, two Kinglets
and a pair of Canada Nuthatches, the Hudsonian Chickadee being
missing.
  At this point we left the path and turning to the east-
ward picked our slowly through the dense growth of gray birches
and young balsams until we came out on the logging road
which we used to traverse so often last winter. Here we took
off our snow shoes for the roadway worn hard and smooth by
frequent travel afforded excellent walking save in a few
places where it was icy and dangerously slippery.
  For a half mile or so beyond where we struck it the road
passes through swampy thickets of birches and alders, in which
we heard nothing but a Kinglet or two but at the point where
it leaves the low ground and begins to ascend a ridge covered
with mixed evergreen woods of balsam, spruce, hemlock and
arbor vitae an interesting experience awaited us. We had
stopped for a moment to look about us and listen when the
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