Penobscot Bay, Maine
1896
June 20
(No 3)
the gardeners. The former work in winter when the snow is deep, the
latter in the summer. Neither will eat the shoots of the black
spruce and both prefer those of the white spruce to those of the
balsam.
  Throughout the spruce woods yellow & canoe birches have sprung
up in many places especially about the edges of the openings
but most of them are dwarfed or at least low & spreading
specimens. In an opening near the house stands a solitary
gray birch the only one known by our host to exist on
Deer Island. It has been cut down over but has again
risen to a height of 15 or 18 feet.
  There are no hemlocks on Deer Island & but one white pines[sic].
Yew is rare and arbor vitae found only very sparingly &
locally. None of the hickories, ashes or oaks are known to
occur and neither the red nor the pitch pine is known.
The larch is found sparingly & the mountain ash rather
commonly. Alders grow profusely along the brooks & I
have seen a few mountain maples of fair size.
  The commonest & most characteristic birds of these woods
are Nashville, Black-throated Green, Yellow rumped & Magnolia
Warblers, Juncos, Robins & Swainson's Thrushes. Two Hermits
are singing within half a mile (one of them within 200 yds)
of the house. Olive sided Flycatchers, Traill's Flycatchers (in
alder runs[?]) & White-throated Sparrows are rather common.
I have heard two Yellow-billed Flycatchers, two Golden crests
Two Grass Finches & two Song Sparrows & two Redstarts.
  I took several short walks in the woods near the house
this afternoon & after supper Watrous & I walked more than
a mile inland.