Lake Umbagog.
Pine Point
1896
June 6
(No 2)
  Another nest, found by Watrons on the 2nd & built in a
balsam on a lateral branch about 5 ft. from the trunk and
midway between the ground & the top of the tree which was about
40 ft. in height, contained 4 eggs to-day but as no bird was seen
we left them undisturbed. Watrons says the eggs & nest are quite
different from the Blackburnian's which we have taken. He thinks
they must belong to a Bay-breast. One of the latter has his
singing station in a hemlock about 30 yards from this nest.
It is surprising how sedentary both Bay-breasts & Blackburnians
are in these woods as well as on Pine Point. Each bird seems
to confine his total daily wanderings within the space of an acre
or two and he sings nine-tenths of the time in the same tree.
[margin]Nest of
D. castanea
in Mason's
logging works[/margin]
  In the afternoon I photographed a "cock nest" of the Winter Wren
in a root bank on Spelman's Point and we all went together by
boat to Chase's camp where Watrons climbed to a nest built
very like the Blackburnian's taken this morning but higher & near
the end of a branch fully15 ft. long. It
cannot be taken without the aid of a rope.
[margin]"Cock nest" of
Winter Wren[/margin]
  Watrons then took me to a nest of the Magnolia Warbler built in
a balsam sapling about 5 ft. above the ground. This nest had 4 eggs on
the 4th but the [female] was not sitting to-day. She visited the nest
once when I was photographing it & chirped at me a good
deal also.
[margin]Nest of
D. maculosa[/margin]
  My last photograph was of a paper birch which stands within
two or three rods of the Lake near the entrance to Glaspy cove. This
tree is about 80 ft. in height & in girth 2 ft. above the ground
measures just 11 feet. Jim Bernier says that it is the largest tree
he has ever seen. The trunk scarcely diminished in size for the
first forty feet.
[margin]The big
Paper Birch 
in Glaspy
Cove.[/margin]