Lake Umbagog.
1896
May 29
[May 29, 1896]

Pine Point

  A dull rainy day clearing at sunset.

Nest of Brown Creeper.

  I spent most of the day about camp but late in the
afternoon took a short walk with Watrous, going to Osgood's
camp ground and back. On the way over I found a
Brown Creeper's nest under a scab of bark on a small balsam
stub about 30 yards from the Lake. The [female] was hard at work
taking strips of the inner bark from an arbor vitae which
stood a yard or two from the stub. She took only one
at a time but they were all large pieces (4 to 6 inches long).
She had a good deal of difficulty in getting them in under
her bark roof and after struggling for a moment with
an especially heavy piece she dropped it. She regularly made
at least one trip each minute. I think she was laying the
foundations for the nest but I did not dare go examine it.
  The male kept close by her the whole time flying with
her back & forth between the two trees but not offering to
help her so far as I could see. Both birds eyed us suspiciously
& I should not be surprised if they deserted this nest.
  It is strange that I have not heard the [male] singing on
the point. The Brown Creeper is apparently one of the rarest
birds in this region this season.

Nest of Yellow rump Warbler [Yellow-rumped Warbler].

  I also found a nest of the Yellow-rump Warbler [Yellow-rumped Warbler] which was only
just begun, happening see the [female] fly to it with some
material. It was singularly placed - at least 40 ft. above the
ground in a paper birch at a point where two stout
branches left the main stem. The crotch was large enough to
hold a Hawk's nest. I should not have looked for the nest
of any small bird - except a Robin's - in such a situation.

Bay breast Warbler [Bay-breasted Warbler] building

  Watrous this morning saw a [female] Bay-breast [Bay-breasted Warbler] at work on a nest
in the Mason logging woods & found a White-throated Sparrow's with
4 fresh eggs near the end of Osgood's Point by the side of a foot path.