110
Lake Umbagog.
Bottle Brook Pond.
1897
June 2
(No 9)
behind others as if in search for food. Then very
deliberately and with an air of the most perfect
nonchalance he worked away from the hole and 
around the trunk. Just as he was disappearing
one of my companions made a slight noise with
an oar and the bird at once flew and disappeared
in the woods. We waited some fifteen minutes for
his return but nothing more was seen or heard of
him. Evidently Picoides americanus is a shy and 
cunning fellow when near his nest. Of course we
left the hole undisturbed this day but I shall return
to it tomorrow if nothing happens.
[margin]Nest of
Picoides
americanus[/margin]
  Leaving [delete]Leonard's[/delete] Bottle Brook Pond at about 4 P.M. we next entered
Bear Brook up which we paddled about a mile. The 
alder thickets which border the winding channel were waist
deep in water and it was most difficult to get a
boat through them but we landed in two places, once
to search for the nest of a Black Duck that rose at or 
near the edge of the woods, again to look for that of a 
pair of Rusty Blackbirds which were making a great
outcry among some densely growing young balsams. We
did not succeed in finding either nest but we saw and
heard a great many interesting birds among them a
Parus hudsonicus which was uttering the usual chip, chaw-
der call. There was also a Brown Creeper & a Kinglet & two
Solitary vireos singing & very many warblers chiefly Blackburnians, Black polls
& Bay-breasts. I found two ospreys' nests, one old, the
other just begun. Once I thought I heard a Spruce Partridge 
drum: it was just the place for one. Yellow bellied Flycatchers were
singing in several places.
[margin]Bear Brook[/margin]
[margin]Black Duck[/margin]
[margin]Rusty
Blackbirds.[/margin]
[margin]Parus
hudsonicus[/margin]
[margin]Warblers[/margin]
[margin]Spruce (?)
Partridge
drums![/margin]