Lake Umbagog.
Pine Point
1896
June 7
  Cloudy with S.E. wind and light rain through the forenoon.
  Spent the morning writing. In the afternoon visited the Warbler's
nest in the balsam on Mason's Knoll - the nest that we left with
4 eggs yesterday. It had 5 eggs to-day and a [female] Bay-breast was
sitting on them. Shaking & pounding on the tree did not seem to
disturb her but every 15 to 20 minutes she would leave the nest
of her own accord and ramble about among the neighboring tree
tops, feeding, returning to her eggs after an absence of 4 or 5 minutes.
Once while on an excursion of this kind she was joined by the
[male] who brought an insect of some kind in his bill and gave it
to her. She accepted it with apparent in difference but at once ate it.
The [male] is the bird who sings in the hemlock 30 yards away.
[margin]Nest of
D. castanea[/margin]
  After photographing this nest we secured it with the eggs.
The pair of Bay-breasts flitted about some distance off while
Watrons was despoiling them but as soon as he came down from
the tree the [female] began searching for her nest examining all the
neighboring branches carefully and hovering in the air at the
place where the branch with the nest had been.
  Later Watrons went to Rapid River to get the Nuthatch's
nest which we found May 25. To his great surprise it proved to
contain young 4 or 5 days old. It must have had nearly fresh
eggs when we first found it.
[margin]Nest of
Canada
Nuthatch[/margin]
  Dwarf Cornel and Tierella in full bloom. The Trilliums still
hold their blossoms but they are ragged & faded. They have 
remained on the stems since we arrived, May 11, and up to 
within a week have looked fairly fresh! The hobble bush has
been out of bloom for a week or more.
[margin]Plants in
bloom[/margin]