1894
June 15
Trip to Mt. Moosilauke, N.H.
  With Faxon and Batchelder I left Boston this morning
by the 9 o'clock train for Moosilauke where we intend
spending a week or more investigating the fauna and
searching for rare nests, especially the nest of Bicknell's Thrush.
  We reached Warren, N.H. at 1.45 P.M. when we discovered
that my trunk was not on the train. There was nothing
to do but wait for the next train which did not
arrive until six o'clock. We accordingly walked through
the town, crossed the river by the railroad bridge and
spent three or four hours sitting on the river bank in a
little opening filled with ferns and surrounded on three
sides by pines, hemlocks, firs, spruces, paper and yellow
birches, etc. There was a cold spring just above us with
a tiny brook winding down through the opening. A
[?], Hermit Thrush, White-throated Sparrow, Black & Yellow
Warbler, Chestnut-sided Warbler, Redstart, Oven Bird and
two or three other common birds that I do not recall
came about us or sang near at hand. There were
at least a dozen Chipmunks in and near the clearing
besides one Red Squirrel. Altogether it was a most
attractive spot. A fisherman wading the river and
casting for trout and a troop of country boys, one
carrying a gun, passed while we were there. I was
strongly impressed by the lushness and luxuriance of the foliage.
In the town we heard a Warbling Vireo & a Least Flycatcher
[?] Robins, Chippins, etc.Chimney Swifts are very numerous.
  After supper at the hotel we drove to Merrill's at
the foot of Moosilauke where we are to stay. It was
a pleasant drive in the cool of the evening with Night
Hawks squealing & booming overhead & Hermits & White-throats
singing in the open grass pastures.