Bethel, Maine.
1912.
January 3
(No 2)
[January 3, 1912]

by beams which straggled through the canopy of foliage above
or by the light reflected from the surface of the snow.
Throughout these windless woods there was to-day perfect
and most impressive silence save where it was broken by
sounds made by birds or Squirrels. These were not infrequent.
Indeed we rarely walked more than a few hundred yards at any
one time without having Chickadees scolding and Canada Nuthatches
whining in the spruces and balsams or the calls of Redpolls coming
from their air overhead. Once the distant calling of White-winged
Crosbills were heard. The chattering, snickering outcries of Red 
Squirrels came, at times, from two or three directions at once.
Most of the Chickadees were Black-caps but in close
association with seven or eight of them and with several
Nuthatches we found two Parus hudsonicus and a single
bird of the latter kind was met with in company with
a pair of Nuthatches. This solitary "Hudsonian" uttered