Breezy Point, Warren, N.H. (Third trip up Moosilauke). [delete]N.H.[/delete]
1894
June 22
  A fine day with clear, bracing air, the sky half filled
at times with cumulous clouds.
  We all went up the mountain together starting at
7.30 a.m. Faxon walked but Batchelder and I rode
to the summit where he took up his traps while
I collected a quantity of Mountain Cranberry and Arenaria
to take back to Cambridge. The combination of a warm
sun and a cool but gentle westerly breeze made it very
pleasant on the mountain top but the more distant
views were obscured by haze. A few Juncos were flitting
about among the rocks and a Barn Swallow flew over
twittering. As I lay stretched out on the deep carpet
of cranberry vines and grass looking off to the westward
the songs and calls of Bicknell's Thrushes came faintly
from the spruce forests which covered the sides of a
ravine four or five hundred feet below. The voice of
the Peabody Bird was also heard occasionally.
  Batchelder brought in about a dozen small mammals
including Arvicola, Evotomys and Blarina. (The last is apparently
the most abundant species of all). He also found a Junco
in one of the traps and gave it to me.
  At about 11 a.m. we started down the ridge. Near the
point where the road leaves it and descends to the
cold spring I had found, on the 16th, a newly finished
but empty nest which there seemed every reason for
believing to be that of Bicknell's Thrush as two birds of
this subspecies, a male and a female apparently, were seen
near it. The male was singing steadily; the female flitted
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