Penobscot Bay, Maine.
1896
July 16
(No 3)
  Now a word as to Walker's Pond. It is a beautiful
sheet of water three miles long by half a mile wide or more
in width at the widest part with rocky shores rising
abruptly in low cliff at several points and with pretty
sand beaches in some of the numerous shallow coves.
The south western end is heavily & densely wooded with
spruces & balsams chiefly and groves of trees or thickets
of bushes are sprinkled thickly around the remaining shores
but near the village much of the land is under
cultivation & fields of English grass stretch to the
water's edge.
  The creek where the Loons nest is an ideal place for
Red-winged Blackbirds but like the marsh visited
yesterday it seemed to have attracted only a solitary
bird of this species who sang a few times but did not
show himself. Swamp Sparrows were numerous along
this creek and here as well as nearly everywhere about
the shores of the pond we heard or saw Yellow Warblers
one of which was also seen in an orchard in the village.
On a rocky slope near the shore we heard a Mniotilta
warbling the midsummer song. Red-eyed Vireos were
singing incessantly in all directions in the woods &
thickets. Song & Savanna Sparrows were abundant in the
fields.
  We saw a fine old Herring Gull standing on an isolated
rock but the village people told us that so far as they 
know this species does not nest here. They also said
that no Ducks of any kind breed in or near this pond but 
our guide of yesterday thinks that an occasional brood
of young Black Ducks may be found in Frost's Pond although
he has seen none there himself of late years.