Lake Umbagog.
1896
May 30
(no 2)
[May 30, 1896]

Pine Point
Nests of Canadian Warbler.

  Watrous came in at noon and reported having found the
nests of the Canadian Warbler, all on moss-covered rocks, two
empty & only partially finished in the Mason logging works,
the third with either four or five eggs on a big boulder near
the place where the path to Osgood's camp leaves the main
path to the Duck Cove.  I photographed this rock last autumn
as a typical nesting place for the Canadian warbler.

Nest of Water Thrush

  Watrous had also found a Water Thrush's nest with five eggs
in a root bank near our Spring. I sent him to take it
this evening without visiting it myself. The eggs found to
be slightly incubated.

Leonards P. [Leonard's Pond]
Nests of Water Thrush
Nest of White throated Sparrow.

  In the afternoon Watrous & I rowed over to Leonard's Pond. We
landed first on the island where W. [Watrous] found two Water Thrushes'
nests with, respectively, 4 eggs slightly incubated & 5 eggs far advanced,
a Chickadee's with a set of 8 very beautiful eggs near hatching, two
Song Sparrows' nests (in root banks) with eggs & an empty Robin's nest.
He then crossed to the northern shore of the north channel where he
found a nest of White-throated Sparrow with four very old eggs
almost as green as Tanager's & with comparatively few sparse
markings.

Photographing Water Thrushes' nests

  I had my hands full photographing the Water Thrushes' nests. One was
in a large earth bank under and behind a curtain of earth & fine
roots. Of this I made two photographs. The [female] was very nervous &
fussy chirping & calling up her mate the first thing. She would not
go on the nest when the camera was near it but kept running 
rapidly around the bank and the camera examining the latter as
well as the bulb of my rubber tube which lay several yards off with
evident distrust. When started from the nest she would regularly 
run six or eight yards crouching close to the ground & moving with
a slow gliding motion spreading her tail & and half spreading and quivering her