Breezy Point, Warren, N.H.
1894
June 28
  A clearing day with fine bracing air and long
periods of sunshine followed by cloudiness.
  I spent the forenoon alone in the beautiful woods
between Moosilauke House and the river. It is
indeed a fascinating place - one of the most attractive
in every way that I have ever seen. The paths and
bridges make every part of it easy and pleasant of
access. There is great variety - dense groves of tall
spruces, pasture spruces with opening filled with
tall ferns, groves of beeches, yellow & paper birches
and sugar maples, brooks with thickets of mountain
and striped maples arching over the swiftly running
water. Under many of the spruces the ground is
deeply carpeted with the most exquisite mosses in
beds of varying tints - [delete]green[/delete] vivid green, olive green,
grey.
  It is a great haunt of the smaller birds,
especially the Warblers. Black & Yellow Warblers
fairly swarm and there are many Redstarts, Blackburnians &
Black-throated Greens, a few Black-throated Blues,
at least one pair of Yellow-rumps and two
male Bay-breasts. There were also two Solitary
Vireos singing and a Golden-crested Kinglet in
full song.
  The Bay-breasts were close together - at times in
the same cluster of spruces. One sang exactly
like a Redstart, the other the typical song. I
am not sure that there was not a third male
at a little distance but one of the two just
mentioned may have moved his position & misled me.
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