Penobscot Bay, Maine.
1896
July 11
  A clear, warm day with strong S.W. wind and two brief thunder
showers in the afternoon.
  Starting at 8 a.m. we spent the day on Eggemoggin Reach sailing
quite to the head of Little Deer Island and then half way across
to Cape Rosier. Near the northern end of Little Deer Island where we
landed to eat lunch on a ledge shaded by birches I heard a Wilson's
Thrush call (pheu) a number of times in a swampy thicket of
alders near us. All along the eastern shores of both islands wherever
paper birches grew abundantly we heard Red-eyed Vireos singing
wherever our boat passed within hearing of the land. The Thrush
is new to my list.
  We also heard, of course, Swainson's Thrushes, Yellow-rumped &
Nashville Warblers, Juncos, White-throated Sparrows & other birds of common
& general distribution among the larger islands of this group.
There were but few water or coast birds - a Loon swimming in
the Reach, three or four Wilson's Terns flying over it and a
few Ospreys, Kingfishers, & Spotted Sandpipers along the shores.
Near the mouth of Fish Creek we saw two adult Night Herons
on a rocky point.
  During an interval of dead calm three Harbor Seals lying half out
of water on a small ledge were making a loud, broken or
stuttering, growling roar which reminded me a little of the
roaring of the Red Howler Monkeys at Trinidad. This cry is new
to me although we have frequently heard the young Seals give a
succession of gasping barks.
  On our way down the Reach I photographed an Osprey's nest on a
point & we landed near a small settlement of houses to see the local
collector Ralph Newman Knight. He was not at home but his father
showed us his eggs & I bought several sets of him, among others
two sets of 4 & 5 eggs each of [?] Eider taken with a third