West Yarmouth, Mass.
1906
July 26
  On July 14th last Miss Bertha M. Saltmarsh and
Miss Helen Farsworth found five Flicker's eggs lying
together in a hollow in the ground not far from
West Yarmouth. These ladies, who are friends of Will &
(?) Stone, are passing the summer in a cranberry house
near the shore of a creek opposite Great Island. A
struggling settlement of cheap cottages and a small hotel
have been recently built here. From this settlement
a wide road has been cut (within a few years,
apparently) through the woods to Hyannis (I believe).
It is used only in summer when the hotel
and cottages are open and then but seldom. The eggs
were found about quarter of a mile from the
settlement where the road is bordered on both sides by
dense woods of young pitch pines. The ladies took
two of them on the 14th and showed the nest to
Will Stone on the 18th when the remaining three were
taken. No bird was seen on either occasion nor could
Will Stone detect any tracks of man, beast or bird about
the spot when he visited it. A Flicker's nest with young
was afterwards found, however, in a hollow tree trunk
not far from the place. Will Stone showed me two
of the eggs when I reached his house at South Yarmouth
on the evening of the 25th. With Mrs. Stone we drove
over to West Yarmouth this morning & calling at the
cranberry house got Miss Saltmarsh who piloted us
to spot where the eggs had been found. It was a 
level expanse of dry yellowish sand mixed with
gravel and perfectly bare of vegetation over a space
of several square yards beyond which were tufts of
grass & weeds growing in slightly richer soil. Near