Penobscot Bay, Maine.
1896
July 3
  Clear with a fresh N.E. breeze up to 8 A.M., the remainder of the
day nearly calm with a light, fickle air from S.E.
  Starting at 8 A.M. we spent three hours in sailing (& drifting)
down the Bay to Spoon Island where we landed at 11 A.M. We
remained ashore until 3 P.M. digging & photographing Petrels' nests.
Then we went aboard & had lunch after which I returned &
exposed the remainder of my plates while Conary rowed Watrous
across the channel to Little Spoon Island. They examined the
Osprey's nest found on June 24. It looked neat & fresh (it was
lined with sheeps' wool) and the bird was flying about whistling
but there were no eggs. Watrons visited the Herring Gull colony
and found ten sets of two or three eggs each but he took only
one set - of two. He says that every nest that we robbed (but
did not remove) on June 24th had eggs to-day. Conary says
that the birds always lay again in the same nest.
  My experience with the Petrels is fully described in my
systematic notes so I will not repeat it here. I took about
twenty eggs and killed twelve of the sitting birds - a most
painful task but I need the specimens badly and they
have made beautiful skins.
  Besides Petrels I found breeding on Spoon Island a perfect
host of Savanna Sparrows - probably 20 to 30 pairs - and several
pairs of Spotted Sandpipers. No doubt there are Song Sparrows
there also but I did not hear any. Two or three
White-bellied Swallows were flying about over the land and it
is possible they were resting there but much more probable
that they had come across the narrow channel from
Little Spoon Island.