MAINE, (L. Umbagog) [Umbagog Lake, Maine] Hooting of the barred owl.
Nests of D. maculosa [Dendroica maculosa]  Nest (old) D. Blackburniae  [Dendroica blackburniae]
1876. [Nests of] T. Swainsoni [Turdus swainsoni] 
Thursday [Nest of] Picus pubescens
June 15 [June 15, 1876] Clear and very hot. Ther. [Thermometer] 85 [degrees]. Started up the lake
in the boat with Stone after breakfast and landed
on the left hand shore. Found D. castanea [Dendroica castanea] and
D. Blackburniae [Dendroica blackburniae] very abundant at this place and
climbed to a number of their nests. Most of these
were evidently last years nests of D. castanea [Dendroica castanea]
but I found one that was very probably the last
years nest of D. Blackburniae [Dendroica blackburniae] as it was totally
unlike any warblers nest that I have seen.
Found here a deserted & thoroughly soaked nest of T.
Swain. [Turdus swainsoni] with 2 eggs. Also found another near it which
I took to be the second nest of the same birds. It was
built on some twigs that branched out from the trunk
of a huge birch some 15 ft. up. Keeping further up
the lake shore we landed again and here I
found a nest of D. maculosa [Dendroica maculosa] with one egg &
two nests of T. Swainsoni [Turdus swainsoni], the first with one
the second with 2 eggs. Also shot a [female] Sphyrapicus
after watching her catching flies for some time.
Heard a barred owl hoot very distinctly near
the shore; his note was whoo, whoo, whoo-hoo;
whoo, whoo. whoo-hoo-ah. Took a nest of Quiscalus
which was very prettily placed under some scales
of bark that had pulled off a dead stub.
  After dinner went up on the left bank of Cambridge
river and found two nests of T. Swainsoni [Turdus swainsoni], the
first with four eggs built in a fallen tree top
about 2 ft. high; the second with three eggs in
a white cedar at least 15 ft. up. Found also a nest
of D. maculosa [Dendroica maculosa] with the [female] sitting on 4 fresh eggs.
It was built in a fir sapling about about 4 ft. up.
Returning to the house I started out again
and hunted the woods above Godwin's field
finding another nest of D. maculosa [Dendroica maculosa] with the
[female] sitting on 4 fresh eggs. Harrington got a nest
of Picus pubescens with 3 fresh eggs.