1893 
June 
(No 3)
Say brook, Connecticut.                                                                                             
  While Clark was looking up marked nests of a Redstart
& Red - eyed birds I followed a female Hooded Warbler across
the road into a swamp where she finally ceased chirping.
Walking cautiously along to the spot where I had last
heard her I flushed her by the side of a wall &
discovered her nest empty but quite completed. It was
placed in a most unusual situation about six inches
above the ground on a broken down, leafless & mainly dead
branch of Cormus alternifolia with no Kalima nearer than
twenty or thirty yards where however, on the other
side of the wall, was a thicket apparently just suited
to a Hooded Warbler's tastes. The only concealment was
afforded by a cluster of tall ferns the fonds of which
bent directly over the nest shielding it perfectly from
observation except on one side.
[margin]Nest of 
Hooded Warbler[/margin]
  Mr. Clark found his two nests but did not climb
to the Redstart's which was thirty feet up in a blue beech
(Carpinus caroliniana) bird was sitting on three eggs & allowed
as to draw down the branch & almost touched her before
she left her treasures.
  The walk home at evening would have been perfect but
for the mosquitos which assailed & followed us in swarms.
We heard Wood Thrushes & a Grosbeak singing.
  Yellow birches are as abundant & generally distributed
here as in northern New England. We saw one to day
that was fully 2 1/2 feet in diameter at the base.
  Both hornbeams equally (& very) abundant.