Penobscot Bay, Maine.
1896
June 27
(no 4)
  Most of the Gulls eggs of this island were far advanced in
incubation & we took only one set-of them[,] remarkably handsome 
eggs. Watrous found one set of four, the first we have seen, but 
unfortunately they were on the point of hatching and we had to leave
them.
  Besides Herring Gulls we saw on Heron Island several Savanna &
 Song Sparrows, a pair of White-bellied Swallows one of which
entered an old hole of a Hairy (?) Woodpecker in a yellow birch 
stub, the inevitable family of Crows (not molested or apparently
even noticed by the Gulls) & a few Spotted Sandpipers.
  Late in the afternoon we sailed back to Stinson's Neck with
a fresh S. W. wind.
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