Breezy Point, Warren, N.H. (second day on Mt. Moosilauke.)
1894
June 18
  A hot, sultry day with thunder showers hovering about
during the afternoon and in the evening and through the
night passing in a procession, as it were, over Merrill's house.
  We started up the mountain at 7.30 a.m. Faxon
walking, Batchelder and I in the wagon. Birds were
singing freely in spite of the heat. Batchelder shot a
fine large Hare (L. americanus) which hopped out into the
road and began nibbling at the grass paying no apparent
attention to us or the horses.
  At an elevation of about 3500 ft. we began to hear
Bicknell's Thrushes and I got out and joined Faxon
in searching for their nests in a very favorable place where
there were dense thickets of young firs forming an
undergrowth to a woods of spruces & firs 35 to 40 ft. in
height. Two birds were singing here and we started
two others which we took to be females but we could
find nothing but two old nests both evidently those of
some kind of Thrushes and both built in small firs.
We finally became discouraged and started up the road
turning into the woods whenever we heard a Bicknell's Thrush
singing & looking awhile for its nest, always vainly. The
birds were very numerous and usually very tame. Indeed we
might have shot eight or ten of them had we wished.
[margin]Turdus a.
bicknelli [/margin]
  We reached the cold spring about noon and, after building
a smudge to keep off the black flies, hunched there. I found
a Junco's nest with three young birds very near the spring.
A White-throated Sparrow, a Junco, Yellow-rumped Warblers,
Black-polls, & Bicknell's Thrushes were singing near us. Some
Red Crossbills flew over piping. The notes of an Olive-backed
Thrush came up faintly from the gulf below.