147
Lake Umbagog.
Pine Point.
1897.
June 14
(No 2)
began feeding neither showing any solicitude or appearing
to notice the movements of Mr. Watrous who, with a
stout rope, first tied the branch firmly to the trunk above
and then walking out on it secured the nest & eggs. Previous
to this I had of course identified the [female] to my certain 
satisfaction. I also took several photographs of the nest before
it was disturbed. Like most nests of this Warbler it
showed plainly enough from beneath looking very like a
large nest of a Chipping Sparrow but from above and from
every side it was well concealed by the spruce foliage that
pulled close over and around it. Before the [female] was
startled her mate was singing steadily in some hemlocks
about 20 yards from the nesting tree.
[margin] Nest of
Bay breasted 
Warbler [/margin]
  While Watrous was taking the nest of the Bay-breast Gilbert
spied another and much larger nest in the top of
the very next tree, a tall but unusually slender & "weedy"
arbor-vitae. On investigation this second nest proved to
belong to an Olive-backed Thrush which was absent at
the time but sitting an hour or two later. The nest was
placed close against the main stem of the tree scarce 4 ft.
from its top & about 30 ft. above the ground. There were three
eggs which we took with the nest.
[margin]Nest of 
Swainson's
Thrush[/margin]
  The next hour was wasted in climbing to two Warblers'
nests high up in a large tree, one in a spruce, the other in
a hemlock. Both proved to be old nests although they
looked promising enough from beneath. Indeed one of them
appeared exceptionally neat & symmetrical when viewed
from the ground. The only way, however, is to climb the
tree & investigate the nest from above.
[margin]Time wasted
in climbing
to old
nests of
Warblers.[/margin]