1893  
June 13                                                                                                        
Say brook, Connecticut.
  Cloudy with strong N.E. wind and frequent storms of fine
rain.
  At 9 a.m. down to the beautiful hillside pasture beyond                           
the upper mill pond to visit the nest of Hooded Warblers
found on the 8th. It proved empty & evidently deserted.
The male bird was singing & female chirping several
hundred yards away in oak & beech woods.
[margin]Nest of
Hooded Warbler[/margin]
  Clark joined us at 10 a.m. and we spent an hour
or more searching for nest in the big oaks in the pasture
finding nothing but an inaccessible Wood Pewee's nest.
I killed a villainous-looking Blowing Adder which was lying
on the top of a flat rock & which hissed threateningly as
I approached.
  We returned to town by a succession of beautiful wood paths                                  
the last of which came out on the Valley Railroad. Clark
showed me a nest of the chat with 4 fresh eggs and a wonderfully
beautiful nest & set of 3 eggs of White-eyed Vireo both of
which he gave us, the Vireos nest was hung in the fork
of a Kalmia about 12 inches above the ground. the bird
was sitting. Her back was more than one inch below the
rim of the nest. She rolled her head about as all Vireos
do when they are sitting or feeding.
[margin]Nest of the
Chat.[/margin]
[margin]White-eyed Vireo's
nest[/margin]
  Birds sang freely to-day, I heard a Nashville Warbler on
the edge of the pasture & an Indigo Bird in a [?],
both new to our Say brook list.
  In the afternoon we packed our things & at 5 o'clock
drove over to Benjamin Clark's at Say brook Ferry when
we are to spend the coming week. The evening was rainy &
we did not go out.