1893
June 6
Saybrook, Connecticut.
  Clear and warm. A thunder shower passed to the N. late in 
the afternoon bringing us no rain but lowering the temperature
sharply.
[margin]Afternoon in 
the woods with 
J.N. Clark[/margin]
  In the forenoon I drove to Saybrook Ferry to investigate a 
boarding house by the river where we intend to go later. On
the way saw a single Eave Swallow taking mud up under
the eaves of a barn. Also a male Cow-bird.
  Faxon came in at noon from a long walk. In a swamp
beyond Clark's he saw a male Hooded Warbler and heard a
bird singing which he afterwards identified as a Water Thrush
(S. motacilla).
  In the afternoon we drove over to Clark's and took a
walk with him, first up over the cedar hills where we
went yesterday, next across the valley to the W. past a
large mill pond to a ledge where we were shown a Parula's 
nest with three eggs, then through the swamp where Faxon
went this morning & where Clark showed us a Hooded
Warbler's nest with 3 eggs among Kalmia thickets, and last
into an extensive white cedar swamp where the ground
over many acres was densely covered with Kalmia [delete]thickets[/delete]
and where we heard a Hooded Warbler in full song.
  On the cedar hills I found a Warbler's nest & four eggs
which we could not identify & which were accordingly
left unmolested. The nest was in a Va. juniper about
6 ft above the ground. The female flew off as we were 
passing & dove into a dense thicket. When we screeped
a female Prairie Warbler came out & chirped. A male
Prairie Warbler singing near by.
[margin]Nest of
Prairie Warbler
in red cedar[/margin]
  Saw a Cooper's Hawk & fresh Woodcock borings in a muddy
place in the path among alders.