Wareham, Mass.
1900.
June 12-14.
(No 3)
  The 13th was another fine day but exceptionally warm
for the Cape. We spent it driving slowly through
miles and miles of wood roads, visiting the
white pine swamp where Bangs took a nest of the
Saw-whet Owl a few years ago, lunching on the
sandy beach at the S. W. end of beautiful White Island
Pond, where I took some photographs and collected
plants of Sabbatia & Coreopsis roseus, and on our way
home in the afternoon passing an interesting old
hunting lodge - which I also photographed & which
traditional tells was once a favorite resort of
Daniel Webster's - and traversing toe bed, now dry
and strewn with bleached Unio shells, of the large
mill pond which so interested me in 1894.
  A knoll shaded by pitch pines & rising in about
the middle of the pond was densely carpeted
with Corema conradi.
Nest of
Saw-whet Owl
Hunting 
lodge once
frequented by
Daniel Web-
ster
  The most noteworthy bird met with during the day
was a Nashville Warbler which we heard signing near
E. Wareham and which was quite new to Mr. Bang's list.
Prairie Warblers were heard everywhere but not in such
numbers as yesterday. Four or five Hermit Thrushes
were seen or heard. I found the fresh track* of
a large Otter on the banks of the trout brook which
traverses the old white pine swamp & directly beneath
the stub which sheltered Bang's Saw-whet Owl's nest.
*In the midst of these tracks lay a dead Alewife perfectly fresh and, indeed
still bleeding where its head had been bitten off. The water just here was
roily, indicating that some large animal, no doubt the Otter, had
plunged into it just before we reached the bank. Bangs saw an Otter here a few days ago.
Three Eagles & a Red-tailed Hawk were seen.
Bangs tells me that Deer are very scarce in
this region but slowly increasing he thinks.
The country has been burnt over in most places
& a stiff undergrowth of oak sprouts had followed the fires.
Nashville
Warbler.
Prairie 
Warblers &
Hermit T.
Otter tracks
Eagles.
Red t. Hawk.
Deer.
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