1893
June 8
Saybrook, Connecticut.
 Clear and warmer with just a pleasant S. wind.
   To Clark's immediately after breakfast. He took us through
a country less varied than that seen yesterday but scarcely
less interesting & beautiful. First came a big cedar & Kalmia
swamp where we heard a Canadian Warbler in full song not
ten rods from the spot where his cousin the Hooded was singing;
next a cedar pasture alive with Chats, White eyed Vireos, Towhees,
Prairie & Black-throated Green Warblers, where I found a
Tanager's nest with four eggs in a red cedar & Faxon a Prairie
Warbler's with four fresh eggs, most conspicuously & curiously placed
in the very top of a slender little maple shoot bitten off by
the cattle; next through low-lying chestnut & oak woods of
noble old trees in which Black throated Green Warblers were
singing, with never an evergreen in sight save the Kalmia
thickets that formed the sole undergrowth in which we
found (& left) a Hooded Warbler's nest containing four eggs
near hatching; next through denser, younger oak & chestnut
woods where we discovered several vigorous young paper birches
(a tree which Clark did not know existed here) and
flushed a [female] Woodcock from underfoot in the wood path
where we failed to find anything at the time but
returning an hour later & again starting the old bird
at length detected two of her young about as big as Sparrows
squatting side by side on an oak leaf; finally reaching a
spring by a wall, on the edge of a swamp where we lunched
&[and] spent nearly an hour. A Wood Thrush, Maryland Yellow-
throat & Blue winged Yellow Warbler sang to us most of 
the time. 
  After lunch we revisited the Woodcock and then
spent an hour or more searching fruitlessly for nests