Breezy Point, Warren, N.H.
1894
June 25
  Varying weather at times clear and hot at others
cloudy with light showers.
  Faxon started to explore the Woodstock road this
morning and followed it over the crest of Mt. Cushman
and half way down the other side. He found a
lot of interesting birds among them a number (he
heard seven different males singing) of Mourning Warblers
in sprout land at the western base of the mountain.
I accompanied him nearly to this point and then
turned back, spending most of the forenoon writing
sitting on a log by the roadside near the bridge
across the river. Hearing a Black-throated Blue Warbler
sing a number of times in the same place behind
me I went to the spot and almost immediately
saw the nest which was placed just 11½ inches above
the ground near the top of a little spruce sapling
which stood alone in a small opening surrounded
by young spruces and maples & birches on a knoll near
the road. There were three young birds fully feathered
& about to leave and (as I afterwards ascertained)
an addled egg. The [female] parent was perched in a
crouching position just above the nest and remained
thus, perfectly immovable, for a minute or more
when I stepped forward & started her. She & the
male then came flitting about me chirping exactly
like Snow-birds. In the afternoon when I took
Faxon to see this nest we found that one of
the young had gone. The other two were missing on
the morning of the 27th but the old male was
still singing fitfully near the nest.
[margin] Nest of
D. caerulescens [/margin]