Breezy Point, Warren, N.W.
1894
June 25
(No 2)
  In the afternoon I walked down to the river
with Faxon who left me at the bridge. I then took
the foot path over the foot bridge and spent an
hour or more sitting on the rocks at the water's edge
writing. It was perhaps five o'clock when I started
up through the woods towards the hotel. Birds were
singing on every side - more of them than I had any
idea the place contained. There were numbers of
Black & Yellow Warblers, several Hermits & Swainson's Thrushes,
a Black-throated Green, Blackburnian and Yellow rumped Warbler,
and several Redstarts. Presently I heard a Solitary Vireo
and shortly after a Bay-breasted Warbler, both new to 
our list. The Bay-breast sang at first like a Golden-crest
ed Kinglet (the tsee-te-tsee), afterwards exactly like a
Redstart. I followed him about through the spruces
for nearly an hour getting repeatedly within fifteen or
twenty feet of him for he showed no fear of me whatever.
He was very deliberate in his movements but kept hopping
and flitting from branch to branch and from tree to 
tree keeping always in spruces and usually near the
ends of thin lower branches searching busily for food
but singing steadily then while at short intervals.
In the same piece of woods a Golden-crest was
singing fitfully. I thought that I heard young
cheeping near it.
[margin]D. castanea[/margin]
  After tea Faxon & I walked up the hill behind the
house. The sun had scarcely set when a Barred Owl
began hooting in the sugar maple grove.