Penobscot Bay, Maine.
1896
June 24
  A clear day with light S.W. to W. wind. 
  We got off this morning at 8 o'clock and started down the Bay. The
wind was very light and I spent the first two hours in the
forecastle writing. Conary & Watrons finally called me out to look at
some Terns. There were five of them swimming on the smooth sea about
40 yards off. I put the glass on the them & once saw that not
a bird had a full black cap. Doubtless they were Arctic Terns
in the portlandia plumage but unfortunately just before I
could get the gun ready they all took wing & alighted far to
windward.
  At 11 A.M. Conary landed me on Little Spoon Island, about
12 acres, high, rounded or sloping outlines, mostly in grass kept
closely-cropped by a herd of sheep but with a small piece of
dead spruce & balsam woods at the S.E. end, these trees large
and bristling with dead, barkless branches. There were the following
birds here:
  Tachycineta bicolor a pair apparently nesting in the dead spruces but
we did not actually find their nest.
  Ammodramus savanna Two pairs, the males singing.
  Melospiza fasciata. One singing.
  Corvus americanus. The usual family of old & young on wing, 6 birds in all.
  Pandion carolinensis. Newly finished but empty nest on dead balsam
15 ft. on stout lateral branch. Bird hanging about.
  Larus a. smithsonianus About 30 pairs of birds nesting in the sheep
pasture. Found 4 sets of 3 eggs, 3 sets of 2 eggs, 6 nests
with 1 egg & about 12 empty nests, some at bases of
rocks others on bare spaces of [?] turf, one in
the top of a hollow log. 
  Oidemia americana [male] ad & [female] swimming together close in to the rocks.