Lake Umbagog.
1896
June 1
(No 2)
[June 1, 1896]

Leonard's Pond

  I next landed on the island and photographed the two Water
Thrush's nests. The results have not proved very satisfactory
for the nests were in such deep shade under the banks that
I could not bring them out without overexposing the rest of the
plate.

Nest of a Whistler

  On May 30th we saw a pair of Golden-eyes flying about over
Leonard's Pond one (the drake, I think) making a vey duck-like
sound - shorter & flatter than the quack of a Black Duck but still
not unlike it a qua-qua-qua-qua or ca-ca-ca-ca-ca uttered
very rapidly. This morning Watrous found what is doubtless
their nest about 15 ft. [feet] above the ground or rather water (2 ft. deep
beneath the nest) near the top of a large red maple stub to which
the bark is still clinging & beside which a young, living maple
apparently a sprout from the roots of the old tree, makes a convenient
ladder to the nest. The larger stub is split off at the top &
there is a ragged cleft or crevice 4 to 6 inches wide in its face.
In this crevice on a level with its base is the nest containing
10 eggs which are crowded in so tightly that it proved difficult
to extract one & all according to Watrous stand directly on end.
They were completely surrounded & covered with down a quantity 
of which shows at the opening. Watrous saw the [female] Golden eye
flying away from the stub as he approached it but he is not
sure she came out of the hole. The drake afterwards circled
over the stub.

Savanna Sparrow

  There was a Savanna Sparrow singing on this island this morning
& at least three Traill's Flycatchers about the shores of the pond.

Downy W. [Downy Woodpecker] feeding young

  After finishing with the Water Thrushes I sailed over to my old
camp ground near Moll's Rock & took two pictures of the [male] Downy [Downy Woodpecker].
The young have hatched for the [male] took in some food in the tip of his bill.