Lake Umbagog.
1896
May 21
[May 21, 1896]

Clear with moderate W. [West] to S. E. [Southeast] wind, E. [East] in the afternoon.

Photographing

  Photographing again this morning under the most favorable
conditions for the light was very clear & strong and in the 
woods the wind did little harm.

A visit to three different Partridge nests

  Visited three of our Partridge's nests and photographed two of
the sitting birds but the third, the one on the eastern edge
of the Brown clearing was too shy to allow me to focus on
her. Watrous took two sets of eggs in the afternoon. The
bird in the Lakeside woods we spared. After an interval of
several days she laid a sixth egg this morning (there were
but five yesterday). Still more remarkable, however, is
the fact that the bird nesting at the head of the Sweat Cove
(near Mrs Sweat's) laid an egg to-day between 12 noon & 3 P.M.
When I photographed it at the former hour there were as
my plate shows and as I made certain by several careful
counts, but 10 eggs. but at 3 P.M. Watrous found 11 in the
 nest. Moreover when we blew them, we found that one
egg was perfectly fresh while the other ten were all incubated
some four or five days.

Cape May Warblers

  Two of the Cape May Warblers which we have located were
singing in the usual places this morning. I did not have
an opportunity to visit haunts of the other three.
These Warblers are evidently among the most sedentary of
all birds. There can be no question that they are now
settled for the summer and intending to breed.

Philadelphia Vireos.

  Given the Red-eyes [Red-eyed Vireo] have become numerous I have lost
track of the Philadelphia Vireos. At least some of them
must have remained but all the birds that I have
followed up lately have proved to be Red-eyes [Red-eyed Vireo].