138
Lake Umbagog.
Great Island.
1897
June 11
  Although the morning dawned cloudy the sun came out by
six o'clock and the remainder of the day was bright & beautiful.
save just before sunset when the edge of a heavy thunder
shower passed over us.
  At 7 A.M. Watrous, Jim, Gilbert and I all went ashore
on Great Island with the determination to make the most
of the fine weather and discover as many nests as possible.
Judging it to be now time for most of the Warblers to have
eggs, or, at least, finished nests, we paid special attention
to them, beating the beds of yew for nests of the Black-
throated Blues and craning our necks upward until they
ached, scanning the spruce and hemlock branches for those
of the Bay-breasts & Blackburnians. We were fairly 
successful finding two nests of the Black-throated Blue Warbler
(besides the one marked by Watrous last evening) two Olive-
backed Thrush's [sic] [Thrushes'] nests with one egg each besides several empty
but fresh nests of this bird and several Warblers['] nests 
high up in spruces and hemlocks which may or may not
prove productive later on.
[margin]We find
Two nests of
D. caerulescens,
two of
Turdus Swain
& several
empty nests
of Warblers [/margin]
  I kept the note book and pencil in my hand the whole
forenoon and again in the afternoon, when I went over
new ground, and jotted down every bird of each species
that I heard or saw. In the cases of the more uncommonly
represented species it is very difficult to make an accurate
comment but I was careful to err on the side of conservatism
[delete]and[/delete] if at all and the numbers of individuals noted in
the following list may be safely taken as in no case
exaggerated. This is the list with the species arranged in 
the order of the numerical occurrence:
Dendroica castanea, 13*[male] [male], D. blackburniae 13* [male] [male], D. maculosa 9*[male] [male]
[margin]Census of
birds breeding
on Great
Island[/margin]