118
Lake Umbagog.
Bottle Brook Pond.
1897
June 4
(No 6) 
egg was still in the ovary.
  On measuring the nest there I found it to be 39 inches
in circumference 1 ft. above the ground. The hole was
on the west side at a height above the ground of exactly 
10 ft. 11 inches.
[margin]nest of 
Picoides[/margin]
  I should have noted that twice to-day I heard
the [male] Woodpecker pounding away vigorously inside
the nest. I think he was enlarging it as it
is unusually narrow at the bottom.
  It was half-past-five o'clock when, after sawing 
off the section of the stub which contained this nest,
we started back down river. A chill wind blew
in our faces and the woods were nearly silent.
  We saw a Duck or two and a pair of Eagles, one 
brown the other white-headed. The latter was 
carrying something in its talons which the other
bird appeared to be trying to take from it. They
came together a dozen times in quick
succession one or both uttering a short shrill
scream many times. This note is wholly new to me.
[margin] Bald Eagles [/margin]
  Watrous took the nest of the Downy Woodpecker
at Bottle Brook Pond to-day. It had five eggs
slightly incubated. The [female] was sitting at 9 A.M.
(she was in the hole at 4 P.M. on the 2nd) and,
as on our first visit, she had the utmost
difficulty in squeezing her body out.
[margin]Downy 
Woodpecker[/margin]