Lake Umbagog.
1896.
June 2
[June 2, 1896]

  Weather very like that of yesterday but with no rain - a blustering
day cloudy most of the time.

Hunting for Warblers' nests in woods at rear of Pine Point
Nests of Blackburnian W. [Blackburnian Warbler] & Bay-breast [Warbler] [Bay-breasted Warbler] found.

  Watrous and I spent the entire morning on the hill at the
western end of the Mason logging works searching chiefly for nests of
the Blackburnian [Blackburnian Warbler] & Bay-breasted Warblers. Both species were very
numerous. We heard at least five Bay-breasts [Bay-breasted Warbler] singing within an area
of six or eight acres and three of them were within an area of
two acres and once within 20 yds. of one another. We found and
took a fine nest & set of 4 fresh eggs of the Blackburnian [Blackburnian Warbler] but
unless one of the three new but empty Warbler's nests which we
discovered proves to be Bay-breasts [Bay-breasted Warbler] we had no success with that
species (One a Blackburnian's [Blackburnian Warbler], taken with 4 eggs June 6 [June 6, 1896], another a Bay-breast's [Bay-breasted Warbler], with 5 eggs, June 7 [June 7, 1896])

Nest of Blackburnian W. [Blackburnian Warbler]

We found the Blackburnian's [Blackburnian Warbler] nest by watching the [female]. We had
probably disturbed her by shaking some of the trees near by but
when we first saw her she was feeding. In about ten minutes
she went directly to the nest and remained in it for twenty
minutes or more while Watrous had gone to camp for his
climbing irons. The nest was on the lateral branch of a slender
young spruce which was growing up through a large rock maple.
It (the nest) was easily seen from the ground beneath looking very
like a Chippy's [Chipping Sparrow]. Watrous took the eggs & sawed off the branch with
the nest.

Nest of Golden crested Kinglet.

  We also followed a Golden-crested Kinglet to her nest which was
very similarly placed only it was hung beneath the branch instead
of being on it like the Blackburnians [Blackburnian Warbler]. The tree was also a young
& slender spruce. Both nests were about 30 ft. above the ground.
The [female] Kinglet [Golden-crested Kinglet] sat very close. Her nest was full of eggs & newly
hatched young Watrous said. He could not look into it & he tried
vainly to count the eggs & young by touch. He thought there were
9 or 10 of both.