Penobscot Bay, Maine.
1896
June 22
  A fair, warm day, dead calm and foggy up to 9 a.m., afterwards
 with light S. W. to S. E. breezes.
  We got off in Conaly's little sloop at about 8 am and by the
help of the tide & a snap reached Dumpling Island, a mile distant,
in the course of half-an-hour. Landing we spent an hour or more
looking for birds & nests. The island is 8 to 10 acres in extent, densely
wooded with spruce and balsam with a small opening in the centre. Many of
the trees are thinly hung with Usnea and the ground beneath them is
in most places thickly covered with small wood plants of various kind[s]
there being but little moss. The birds noted were Parus atricapillus 1*,
Turdus swainsonii 1*, Dendroica coronata 1*, D. virens 1*, Melospiza
fasciata 1*, Corvus americanus [male] [female] with 4 young on wing. There was an
old Flicker's hole in a fir stub and a dilapidated & deserted Osprey's
nest on the top of a broken off but living balsam.  Also heard Actitis here[.]
The Chickadee sang phoebee but also gave a series of 4 to 6 whistles all
on same key and as loud & ringing as the long notes of Zon. abicollis
for which, indeed, I at first mistook them.  He repeated this call
50 times or more & answered my whistled imitation.
  We next landed on Halibut Ledge a smooth, round-topped island of solid
gray or pale reddish gray rock perhaps an acre in extent with patches
of grass, beach pea vines & other coast vegetation featured on the summit
which was 20 feet or more above high water. Thirty or forty Terns 
rose from this island as we approached it. They were exceedingly
nervous & shy not once coming within less than 100 yds & the whole
colony rising high in air & scattering in every direction when we landed.
We found 5 or 6 nests one with 2 eggs (photographed & taken) all
the others with 1 egg each. I think that all these Terns were Wilson's
but accurate determination was of course impossible. A Spotted 
Sandpiper & two or three Herring Gulls were the only other birds seen here.