Bethel, Maine.
1902.
January 6.
  Cloud with light S. wind.
  The Doctor and I spent about an hour this forenoon in
the woods below the house. After traversing the paths we
left them and followed up the course of the brook for upwards
of a quarter of a mile. The walking was rather open and very
level and smooth for the way led over a narrow intervale 
covered with large black ashes and yellow birches which stood
well apart with almost no undergrowth. It was difficult to
understand what could attract Partridges to such woods but we
found the trails of at least two different birds which has
apparently been rambling about over a very large extent of
ground.
  In the woods nearer the house we saw four Chickadees and
a flock of about twenty Redpolls. The latter were in larch
trees apparently eating the seeds. We also heard a Pine Grosbeak
whistling high in air overhead.
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