Bethel, Maine
1911.
April 3-6
(No 2)

Crows

sumac berries near his house. During my car ride to Portland
on the morning of the 6th there was scarce a minute when
Crows were not in sight. Most of them were single birds
engaged in skimming low over the snow-covered fields
evidently looking for food. I must have seen at least 200.

Red-shouldered Hawk.
Pileated Woodpecker
Other birds

  Perhaps I should class, also, as a spring bird an adult
Red-shouldered Hawk which appeared on the morning of the
4th soaring over the Gehrings' orchard. As I was dressing on
that of the 6th I saw a Pileated Woodpecker flying low over
their farm orchard, undulating slightly, like a Flicker.
Three Chickadees, a Downy Woodpecker and a Hairy Woodpecker
came repeatedly to suet hung in an elm tree over the house.
A Blue Jay came to it and ate of it on the 3rd.
  The woods seemed almost barren of animal life. During a 
three mile tramp through them on the 4th I failed to see or
hear a bird of any kind or even a Red Squirrel; but the next
afternoon I heard Chickadees & Golden-crests in the Glen Woods.