Lake Umbagog.
1896
June 4
  Clear, the entire morning dead calm, a fresh N.W. breeze in the afternoon.
  Watrons took me to another nest of D. caerulescens this morning - in
a bed of stunted yew within two rods of the path to Glaspy Cove
and not far from the latter. I photographed the nest but the
bird was too shy & nervous to catch on my plate. I also took
a second picture of the tree while the Pileated Woodpeckers have
chambered out so remarkably.
[margin]Nest of
D. caerulescens[/margin]
  We then retraced our steps to the knoll by the big boulder where
the Blackburnian & Bay-breasted Warblers are so numerous. Here
we spent the remainder of the forenoon making an extensive
(and exhausting) search for nests pounding hundreds of trees with
an axe in the hope of starting the sitting birds. This plan
failed utterly (we afterwards learned by actual experiment that
these Warblers will not leave their nests even when the trees in which
they are placed are pounded vigorously) for we did not find
a single nest of any kind. There were at least a dozen
Bay-breasts and an even greater number of Blackburnians singing
on this knoll within an area of eight or ten acres.
[margin]Vain search
for nests of
D. castanea &
D. blackburniae
in woods at 
rear of Pine Pt.[/margin]
  In the afternoon I paddled across the Lake and took two
photographs of the stub which contained the Golden-eye's nest and
several more of the Water Thrush's nest with 4 eggs on the island
in Leonard's Pond. The mosquitoes were so numerous & savage that
I had to resort to the tar to keep them at bay. They are
now making photography a trying occupation.
[margin]Photographing
nests of
Whistler &
Water Thrush[/margin]
  As soon as my work was finished here I hoisted the sail
and crossing the flooded Moose Point marsh stood out over the
Lake for Crocker's camp ground but the wind threatening to fail
I turned back before getting quite across and returned to