Lake Umbagog.
Head of Lake.
1896
June 11
(no 2)
  After lunch we started for Chase's Camp following the old
logging road for the lake was too rough to go by water.
On reaching the camp we went up to the crest of the hill
where, in a tall spruce growing on the side of the path,
Watrons had found, more than a week ago, a large & very
prominent-looking nest of what he thought would prove to
be a Bay-breasted Warbler. I visited this nest with him
on the 6th when he climbed the tree & was quite sure
that he could see one egg. On that occasion we took over a rope
200 feet long by the aid of which Watrons intended to reach the
nest which being fully 35 ft. above the ground and ten feet
out from the trunk near the end of a slender branch was
inaccessible by any other means[.]
[margin]Chase's Camp,
Glaspy Cove[/margin]
   There was no bird on the nest to-day when we arrived but
just as we got the rope in position a Warbler flew to the
branch & quickly entered the nest. Watrons was a little above
her & about 12 ft. off in the fork of a birch. He said that
she had dark streaking on the back but he could make out
nothing more than this. He threw sticks at the nest but she
would not leave it until I shook the branch by swinging
the rope against it when she darted off and at once disap[-]
peared in the dense foliage. We waited about 15 minutes but
saw nothing more of her. Watrons then slid out and down on
the rope. It sagged so he could not reach the nest & had to
come to the ground without it. But after we had tightened
it he made a second attempt & brought the nest down
in his teeth. It had six very large & beautiful eggs which
before blowing were dull smoky white, after the removal of
their contents slightly greenish. They are unlike any
Warblers I have ever taken but the nest is a typical
Bay-breast's. A male of that species was singing to-day.
[margin]Nest of
D. castanea[/margin]