Lake Umbagog
1896
June 3
  Cloudless, early morning calm, a fresh W. wind during remainder of
day.
  We breakfast regularly now at from 5 to 5.30 A.M. & thus get an early
start. This morning Watrons took us to a nest of Dendroica caerulescens
which he found building May 24. It had four eggs to-day & the [female] was
sitting. She was very tame allowing me to set up my camera within
four feet of the nest and when started off returning within a few
minutes & resuming her tack. The nest was on Spelman's Point on
a hillside in a hollow surrounded by fallen spruce tops, densely
shaded by big hemlocks & filled with a rank growth of yew. I
got several fine pictures of the nest & sitting bird.
[Nest of
D. caeruslescens[/margin]
  Returning to camp I visited & photographed a Junco's nest (with
4 eggs) built in the Hypnum moss which covered the nearly vertical
face of a big boulder near the Duck Cove and the White-throated
Sparrow's nest on the point near Osgoods camp ground. We took
the eggs from the latter May 30 substituting for them four eggs of
a Song Sparrow three of which have hatched since then. The [female]
White-throat came about chirping anxiously. She must have
been surprised to bring out young after sitting only four days. Probably
the time was even shorter for the young appeared to be a day or
two old this morning.
[margin]Nest of
Junco.
White-throated 
Sparrow hatches
Song Sparrow's
eggs substituted
for her own.[/margin]
  At least two pairs of Empidonax minimus were quarreling in the
birch grove near the Sparrow's nest. They have been there ever since
our arrival & are doubles settled for the summer. I do not find
this Flycatcher elsewhere about the head of the Lake except at Leonard's
Pond where I heard one this evening when we were taking the
set of Golden eyed Duck's eggs. These eggs, by the way, prove to be far
advanced in incubation but they were cold when taken &
the embryos dead & partially decomposed.
  The Saw-whet filed only a few times this evening.
[margin]Acadian Owl[/margin]