Lake Umbagog.
1896
May 25
[May 25, 1896]

Pine Point

  Cloudless, the early morning calm, the remainder of day with fresh S.E. [Southeast]
wind.
  Immediately after breakfast I made two photographs on the hemlock
knoll, one of a Hobble Bush in full bloom on the left of the path,
the other of the two boulders between which the path passes. While
at work I heard great numbers of birds among these two Bay-breasts [Bay-breasted Warbler],
a Winter Wren and very many Blackburnians [Blackburnian Warbler]. A pair of Juncos
hopping about silently in the opening which we cleared last year. A
Partridge drumming not on the old drumming log but about fifty yards
from it in the dense woods at the foot of the hemlock-covered
slope to the eastward.

Photographing nest of Canada Nuthatch

  The rest of the forenoon was devoted to the Nuthatch's nest
found yesterday at the end of our point. Jim had put up
a board on the side of a birch about 2 ft. from the hole and
on this board I adjusted my camera and snapped at the 
male Nuthatch when he came with food for his mate. I made
six or eight exposures with fair success but I should have done
better had the board been placed 8 or 10 feet from the hole for
the bird was never quite still and I could not give time
enough to get clearness of definition and firmness of outline.
This was proved by the fact that all the impressions of the bird
are thin and a trifle vague while some of them have
blurred outlines whereas the white bark took perfectly. I got one
picture of the [female] as she was clinging to the stub just before
entering the hole. This was a difficult task for she usually
flew in, without so much as touching her feet to the edge of
the hole.The [male] fed her at intervals of from 10 to 30 minutes
and once twice within 5 minutes. He usually brought what
looked like small larvae held lengthwise in his bill.
Pretty, interesting little creatures these Canada Nuthatches!