Bethel, Maine
1912.
January 3 
(No. 4)
[January 3, 1912]

  In addition to their calls both birds and squirrels 
made other and slighter sound caused by their movements among 
the branches and distinctly audible at considerable distances in 
the still air. Of these the light crackling made by the Canada 
Nuthatches as they pried apart the scales of balsam cones to 
get at the seeds was especially frequent and noticeable. I watched 
them repeatedly at this and saw them hide the seeds - never more 
than one in the same place - under scales of loose birch bark or in 
crevices in maple stems as is their interesting habit - practised [practiced]
also, of course, by the White-bellied Nuthatch, by our Black-capped 
Chickadee and by Blue and Canada Jays.
  In woods where a number of poplars had been cut the 
snow about the prostrate tops of these trees was marked by the 
foot prints of Ruffed Grouse which had evidently been feasting on 
the poplar buds. Rabbit tracks were seen everywhere but 
not in unusual profusion.