1896
July 4
Penobscot Bay, Maine
  Cloudy with heavy showers in the afternoon.
We spent the day at the house.
July 5
  Cloudy with E. wind and steady rain most of the day but clearing
just before sunset & the wind shifting to N.W.
  Work on my notes, photographs & eggs kept me in the house through
the day but after supper I walked out along the road towards the
bar for a mile or more. Birds were singing freely and I was
really surprised at their abundance. Although there are but few
species these are nearly all represented by a great number of individuals.
Nashville Warblers, Yellow-rumps, Black & Yellow Warblers, Robins, Swainson's
Thrushes, and Juncos are the most numerous and generally distributed.
I heard four Hermit Thrushes, three White-throated Sparrows, three
Traill's Flycatchers, two Maryland Yellow-throats & several Song Sparrows
& Chippies besides two Grass Finches. The Swainson's Thrushes are
probably the most common of all. I must have heard at least a
dozen males.
[margin]Evening walk on the Neck[/margin]
  The mixture of trees & shrubs of northern & southern [?] interests
me. The Gray Birch is common & scattered everywhere through the woods
although less commonly than the Canoe Birch is. Arbor Vitae is rather
uncommon & Yew decidedly so. Ground Juniper grows abundantly
in the pastures. It is of a lighter green than with us & may be the
northern species. Empetrum nigrum, Bayberry & Vaccinium vitis-idaea
grow side by side on mossy ledges. The White Spruce is common.
The people here recognise two kinds of Black Spruce the Double &
the Single Spruce. They are equally common & I must confess they
look very unlike & do not seem to [intergrade ?]. The "Double["] Spruce is like
the Umbagog kind. The Single Spruce has much less dense foliage & is of a lighter, yellower 
green.