Penobscot Bay, Maine.
1896
July 6
(No 2)
(Lower Mark Island) old nests which looked like those of Ducks &
one which appeared to have been made this year but which
contained neither down nor eggs.
  Besides the Terns we saw on this island to-day no other
birds except Savanna Sparrows which literally swarmed. Indeed
there were quite as many as, if not more than, on Spoon
Island. They were feeding young on wing. I have little
doubts that Song Sparrows also breed here but we saw none.
Probably they have about ceased singing on the smaller outer
islands.
  After eating lunch on the boat we started back up the Bay
& passing our cove entered Eggemoggin Reach and turned into
Fish Creek which we followed nearly to its head landing finally
on Campbell Island where Conary & Knight found a dozen or
fifteen pairs of Great Blue Herons nesting in 1894. Some of the
old nests still remain (they were built in balsams 15 to 30
feet above the ground & were scattered all over the interior
of this island) but the birds have evidently deserted the
place as we saw no signs of their recent presence there.
I found here the first Red-eyed Vireos that I have met with
on this coast - four males at least, three singing on the island
in paper birches, the fourth on the opposite shore (Deer Island)
I also heard Swainson's Thrushes, Black-throated Green Warblers,
Chickadees (two), Song Sparrows & White-throated Sparrows.
Several pairs of Ospreys were seen along the creek. Two birds,
one following the other, were carrying fish to their nest, one
a large sculpin, the other a small flounder.
  Two Kingfishers also seen here & a Night Heron on a rocky point
near a fish weir. Conary also saw a Great Blue Heron near
the mouth of the creek.