Lake Umbagog.
1896
May 16
(no 2)
[May 16, 1896]

Hermit Thrush's nest.
Partridge's nest

  After leaving the Woodcock's nest we struck across to the Brown clearing
& visited the Hermit Thrush's. [female] sitting but shy rising at 10 to 15 feet.
Tried to photograph her but failed & finally took both nest & eggs.
Then visited Partridge's nest near the road. Bird absent, 6 eggs, all
uncovered.
  Next to deep hollow in Abbott crossing (George Abbott's deserted farm)
& finally back to tea at 6 p.m.

Cape May Warblers.

 Three Cape May Warblers heard singing this P.M. They seem to be settled
for the moment as I find the same birds in the same places day
after day. Two of them were in pasture spruces; the third on the
edge of the woods with a Kinglet (R. satrapa [Regulus satrapa]) a Blackburnian [Blackburnian Warbler], Yellow-rumped [Yellow-rumped Warbler]
Black-throated Blue [Black-throated Blue Warbler] and a Nashville Warbler, a Red-bellied Nuthatch, and
a White-throated Sparrow (also a Parula Warbler) singing within an area 
of an acre or less.

Song of the Woodcock

  At evening went up on the knoll behind the barn to hear the
Woodcock. He came flying from the cover at 7.30 and skimming
close to the ground alighted well out in the field & began peeping.
For half an hour or more he sang at least as often as once in two
minutes & sometimes at intervals of only a minute. Once I
watched him through my glass during his entire flight but made 
out nothing new. He pitched down very steep inclines while singing.
He had no particular peeping station but alighted at different
places. This pasture is fully 300 yards from the nest. I
doubt if the peeping can be heard at all at the nest
but the song can be, easily.