150
Lake Umbagog.
Staples place near Great Island
1897.
June 14
(No 5)
trouble that I abandoned the attempt (the nest was
several hundred yards back from the Lake in a bed of
Yew or a slight ridge) and while the other were gone
rambled slowly about in the woods near the shore.
Like the woods on Great Island they were remarkably
free from undergrowth and the ground was not only
nearly level but very smooth and free from rocks or holes.
A good many Bay-breasts & Blackburnians were singing
in the tree tops & I heard one Cape May Warbler.
Deer signs were very numerous.
[margin]Nest of
D. caerulescens[/margin]
[margin]Cape May
Warbler[/margin]
  We next crossed to the northern end of Great Island
landing first on the western side of the cove to visit a Warbler's
nest found on the 11th in a big hemlock fully 60 ft. above the
ground. Watrous reached it with some difficulty when it proved to
be an old nest apparently of D. castanea! We have had many
such disappointments of late.
[margin]Great Island
Old nest of
Bay breast
Warbler[/margin]
  A similar-looking nest, found by Watrous on the 11th in
a large red spruce 200 yards or more back from the water on
the opposite side of the cove, was next visited. It turned out
to be a Bay-breast's containing a fine set of 5 fresh eggs.
The nest was freely 50 feet above the ground near the end of a
stout, dropping branch about 15 feet from the main trunk.
Watrous reached this nest by climbing a tall, slender maple
which, by the aid of a rope, Jim and Gilbert drew over
and held within arm's reach of the nest. The nest was
almost perfectly concealed from view from every direction
by the density of the surrounding spruce foliage. The
[female] sat very closely, refusing to leave her eggs until Watrous
parted the twigs directly over her head with his hand. She
[margin]Nest of
Bay-breasted
Warbler[/margin]