Lake Umbagog.
1896 
May 17
[May 17, 1896]

  Morning clear and very warm with light S. W. [Southwest] wind, P.M. cloudy with showers
of fine rain. A clear evening.

Partridge's nest.

  Started out with Watrous immediately after breakfast taking my camera. 
Visited the Partridge's nest near the house first but the bird was about.
Next tried the nest in the tall alders near Sargent's. Bird on. I took 
one photograph at about 10 feet then tried to get another at 5 feet 
but after I had adjusted my tripod the bird started & ran off. 
Left her for an hour but on returning found her running in the alders
near the nest.

Partridge's nest.

  We then crossed the pastures to the W. [West] end of the Pearley White farm
where Watrous showed me a Partridge's nest which he found yesterday.
It was in a very exposed place, quite outside even the outer line of 
wild cherry & other underbrush that formed the border of the woods 
in the side of a mound under a few dead sticks (the remains of 
an old brush fence) in the full glare of the sun and actually 
in the field itself rather than in the edge of the woods. I took 
three photographs & started the bird while trying for a fourth at a distance
of about 4 feet. She did not return although we waited an hour.
We then went back to the nest in the alders. Bird on but wild this time
starting when we were 10 feet off. 
  I next took the photographs of the Hermit Thrush's nest found on the 15 [May 15, 1896], two 
of the bird while sitting masking my camera behind a rail fence about 12 ft off. 
Spent the afternoon in the house writing.

White crowned Sparrows [White-crowned Sparrow].

  At sunrise this morning a White-crowned Sparrow sang loudly five or six times 
near the house. Later I found the birds, all adults, behind the barn where 
they spend the day. I was not sufficiently wide awake to note the song accurately 
but it impressed me at the time as being wild, clear & very musical. 
We saw one of the Sparrows yesterday afternoon in a pasture among 
fire-charred stumps. They seem to avoid the woods & to haunt especially
the neighborhood of houses, farms & the roadsides.