Breezy Point, Warren, N.H. - third trip up Mt. Moosilauke
1894
June 22
(No 4)
  Along the upper edge of the belt where the wind has an
unobstructed sweep over the crest of the ridge the trees were stunted
and matted together but those about the nest were twelve to
fifteen feet in height and of nearly normal habit although
if, as is probable, they were of considerable age, they were of
course much dwarfed. We could find no spruces in these woods.
they do not appear, indeed, until several hundred feet lower down.
  Later in the day - after lunching at the cold spring where
we were assailed by swarms of hungry black flies - Faxon and
I walked down the mountain to Merrill's, stopping for an
hour or more at the place where we saw four Bicknell's
Thrushes on the 18th and searching long and carefully for their
nests among the dense thickets of young balsams which form
an undergrowth to a rather open woods of comparatively large
(30 to 40 ft in height) spruces and balsams. We heard one
Bicknell's Thrush singing & another calling among these balsams
but we found only one old nest, the third which we have
seen here. All these were in balsam saplings, the lowest
only two feet, the highest about seven feet, above the ground
on the lateral branches close to the main stems. In the woods
where I took the nest with eggs we found an old nest,
evidently a thrush's and doubtless a Bicknell's Thrush's, near
the end of a horizontal branch about three feet from the
ground and five feet from the trunk of this tree. The branch
extended out into an open space and no one could have
passed it without seeing the nest.
  On the 18th Bicknell's Thrushes were singing or calling everywhere
during the entire time we were on the upper part of the mountain.
To-day they were strangely silent. We heard only two or three singing
& not more than five or six calling. The usual call resembles at
a distance the paap of Chordeiles; near the phew of the Veery.
Our bird on the 18th clucked exactly like a Hermit Thrush.