Penobscot Bay, Maine.
1896 
July 9
Light winds from the S.W. with intervals of calm and a fresh 
breeze late in the afternoon. Sun shining directly through thin
fleecy clouds[.]
  Starting at about the usual time we tailed to Heron Island 
consuming wary the whole forenoon by the way for the breeze
was light &, after I had passed Marshall Island, ahead. 
A heavy bark of fog lying along the S.E. horizon made us 
uneasy about the afternoon. As I landed at over after 
casting anchor and without waiting for lunch I went to
work with the camera taking twelve photographs in about 
two hours. The Gulls behaved much as during our former 
visit (June 27) but they seemed less concerned at our presence 
which was the more singular from the fact that many of 
them had evidently hatched their eggs. At least we found 
two broods of young in climbing to three of the ten nests 
& in one nest of the ground an egg had just hatched & 
the other two were pipped. Most of their ground nests, however, 
had been robbed since our last visit and one in a balsam,
in which we had left the set of their eggs, was also empty 
to-day. We found several more nests on the ground in 
the midst of dense balsams one with a beautiful set of three 
fresh eggs which I took. I photographed this nest and 
also used the eggs to supply an empty nest placed 
in the midst of a fallen birch top of which I got a 
fine negative. Watrous found our empty nest in the woods
on the top of a large rock. The condition of the egg shells 
lying was it indicated that the young had hatched 
& gone. No doubt the young hatched in the ground nests 
make off as soon as they are a few days old. Three about 
four days old in a nest in a tree tumbled down through