Lake Umbagog.
1896
June 6
  Clear and cool. Fresh S.E. wind all day.
  Watrons and I spent the morning in the woods on the
Knoll at the W. extremity of the Mason logging works. We found
no fresh nests but visited several found on the 2nd & 3rd inst.
The first, a Black-throated Blue Warbler's found on the 3rd with one
egg was apparently deserted for no more eggs had been laid but strange
to say the [female] was directly over the nest in a low maple this morning
and she chirped at us too. (This nest was left until the 7th when we
took it with the one egg)
[margin]Nest of
D. caerulescens[/margin]
  We next visited another nest of D. caerulescens which Watrons
found on the 3rd with two eggs. The bird had laid four and was
sitting on them. I took five photographs of her & the nest which
was in a small bed of rather scanty yew within 20 yards of
the big boulder.
[margin]Nest of
D. caerulescens[/margin]
  One of the nests found (by me) on the 2nd yielded to-day
a remarkably handsome set of 4 eggs of the Blackburnian Warbler.
Although they were perfectly fresh the [female] sat so closely that
thumping and shaking the tree (a slender one) failed to start her
and when Watrons climbed it he nearly touched her before she
slipped off. She then dropped like a stone to the ground over
which she crawled & tumbled & fluttered with wide-spread tail
& quivering wings much like a Water Thrush or Oven bird &
evidently with the hope of leading us away from the nest. Such
a demonstration on the part of a tree-building Warbler is, I
think, unusual. This nest was fully 20 ft. above the ground
near the end of a long, slender branch at least 10 ft. from the
main stem of the tree, a [delete]rather[/delete] solitary & not very vigorous young
spruce growing under some large hemlocks & yellow birches which
cast dense shade over the spot. I photographed the nest
which we took successfully by bending over another tree within reach.
[margin]Nest of
D. blackburniae[/margin]