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Lake Umbagog.
Pine Point.
1897.
June 14
  Another thoroughly disagreeable day with a succession of heavy
showers marching close upon one another's heels over this
already deluged region. During the brief intervals between them
the sun occasionally shone for a few minutes on the
dripping woods.
  Jim, Watrous, Gilbert and I went up to the Lake this
morning on the steamer taking two of our small boats in 
tow. We landed first at Pine Point where Watrous had
previously (on June 8) found and marked several Warblers'
nests. Only one proved good and that had but two eggs
and no bird sitting. It looked like a Blackburnian's nest
but was placed rather low for that species being scarce 20 ft [feet]
above the ground near the extremity of that horizontal branch of
a red spruce which stands near the end of the point on
the upper side of the path that leads from the camp to
the landing. No bird came very near it while I was
watching it but a male Blackburnian was singing steadily
in the very next tree. I took several photographs of this nest.
[margin]Nest of
Blackburnian
Warbler[/margin]
  As we were following the path which leads around the
boat cove Jim was lucky enough to find a nest of the
Bay-breasted Warbler containing five fresh eggs. (3050/5) It was on
a stout, drooping branch of a large red spruce about 5 ft. from
its extremity, 13 ft. from the main trunk, and 20 ft. above
the ground. The [female] sat very closely, refusing to move when the 
branch was shaken with some violence and only leaving her
eggs when Watrous struck the twigs closer over her head with
a long stick. She then flew down into some young arbor
vitea[s] when the male immediately joined her & both birds 
[margin]Nest of
Bay breasted
Warbler.[/margin]