Lake Umbagog.
1896
May 18
(#2)
[May 18, 1896]

for my camera. It was a rare chance for the background & light were
exceptionally good & the animal singularly graceful & striking in pose.
It was in full summer pelage. One side of its face was literally covered
with bloated wood ticks which looked like so many great black warts.

Nests of Hermit Thrush and Partridge

  Watrous this morning found a Hermit Thrush's nest on the knoll
behind the school-house and a Partridge's nest within 15 yds. [yards] of the
road at the Great Cove on the very edge of the woods but
well-concealed, nevertheless, under some dense young arbor vitaes although
from one spot in the wood the sitting bird could be plainly seen
with a glass. I saw both nests this afternoon. The Hermit's contained
four eggs of which one was slightly spotted. We did not disturb
the Partridge as I wish to photograph her. We also left the
Hermit's eggs. Her nest is in an opening among some little balsams
(about a foot tall) deeply sunk in the ground - a typical situation.