Bethel, Maine
1911.
April 3 - 6

Deep snow
Crows

  I spent April 3, 4 & 5 at the Gehring's house in Bethel,
reaching there on the night of the 2nd and leaving to return 
to Cambridge on the morning of the 6th. There was practically 
no snow at Portland and only a few inches from there
to South Paris beyond which it overspread the entire country.
At Bethel it was 2 feet deep in the open fields & village
streets and from 3 to 4 feet everywhere in the woods no
bare ground being visible anywhere save under a few of the
denser evergreens which had been serving as umbrellas for months
past. Never have I seen the conditions so backward before
at this season. The only spring birds I noted were Crows
which were numerous everywhere having arrived, I was told,
only a day or two before I did. I started about 20 from
the mouth of an open drain in Dr. Gehrings field and saw
others in his orchard pulling frozen apples to pieces and
apparently drawing the pulp. Still others were seen eating