Penobscot Bay,Maine
1896
July 8
(No 2)
(Isle au Haut) over & about him making an outrageous clamor. The
whole island seemed to be swarming with them.
  Presently I heard the unmistakable Krur-r-r-r, Krur-r-r-r,
Krur-r-r of a Raven and with the help of my glass made
out three of the big birds among some dead stubs on a rocky ridge
half-a-mile or more away across the valley. They kept taking
short flights two which seemed to be young following the third which
was no doubt their parent from tree to tree alighting within a foot
or two of her & half opening their wings as if begging for food.
Finally all three rose into the air & flew off over the ridge.
It was easy to distinguish them from the Crows, even at that
distance, by their more buoyant & erratic flight. Watrous, who
got within less than 100 yards of them said that they did not
appear to be much larger than Crows but he was struck by the
greater apparent length of their necks & tails while flying - an
excellent point of distinction.
  I saw or heard on this island two Robins, three Hermit Thrushes,
three Swainson's Thrushes, one Yellow-rumped, one Yellow, four Black-
throated Green, one Black & Yellow, and two Nashville Warblers, a Redstart, several Maryland
Yellow-throats, three or four Barn Swallows, a dozen or fifteen Eave
Swallows, two Crossbills (L. minor?), two pairs of Savanna Sparrows, four or
five Song Sparrows, three White-throated Sparrows, two Juncos, three
Traill's Flycatchers, three Ravens, twenty or more Crows, an Osprey, six
Summer Yellow-legs, two Least Sandpipers, two Spotted Sandpipers,
three Great Blue Herons & several Herring Gulls.
  Watrous found White-throated Sparrows & Swainson's Thrushes abundant
on the high central & nearly bare ridge of the island. He also saw
six Cedar Birds & a Red-eyed Vireo there but he did not
meet with a single Junco.