Trip up the lake.
1876. Quiscalus catching frogs
Friday Nest of D. maculosa [Dendroica maculosa] Night hawks at noon
June 9 [June 9, 1876] Clear and very hot. Ther. [Thermometer] 95 [degrees] at noon
Took the steamer after breakfast with "Ninety" [Ninety Harrington]
as guide. Left the steamer at Pine point
and paddled into the cove where we ended
up yesterday. Cut down a tall stub with
a nest of Sphyrapicus but all the eggs
were broken by the fall. The hole was the
smallest that I have seen yet and the
bird had to struggle violently to get 
in. In this same cove found a nest
of P. villosus [Picus villosus] with young. It was found
in a birch stub about 15 ft up. The
old birds made a great racket. We
got two nests of H. bicolor [Hirundo bicolor] here with 4 &
5 eggs respectively. The former was very
handsomely, being lined with feathers from 
the adlt. [adult male] hooded merganser. From here
we struck across into Leonards pond
and hunted a long time for nests
about the mouth of the Magalloway, but
did not take a single nest. Saw several
Certhias among the stubs where they were 
evidently breeding among the stubs.
Finally a thunder shower coming up we
rowed over to Moll's carry where we
took shelter in a camp of river drivers
After the shower passed I hunted about in 
the woods a little and found a nest
of D. maculosa [Dendroica maculosa] which the [female] was working
upon. It was built in a spruce sapling
about 9 ft up [and] was perhaps half finished
Saw a Quiscalus seize a small frog
which he beat forcibly with his bill
and finally took off probably to his
nest. Saw numbers of Chordeiles out over
the lake [?] & booming & hawking for
[margin]insects in the full light of the noonday sun.[/margin]