Nest of Tyrannus Haliaetus [Haliaeetus leucocephalus] diving for fish
MAINE, (L. Umbagog) [Umbagog Lake, Maine]
1876. Picus pubescens catching flies.
Thursday
June 22 [June 22, 1876] Cooler but with heavy showers at intervals of an
hour or so, all through the day. Stone & Bailey left
for home this morning. Last night while coming
in over the corduroy road behind the barn I
had an ugly fall striking on my right hip
in the old place and this morning it was
so painful that I did not dare to start out as
usual, so took my boat and paddled down
the lake landing at one or two places. I visited
first a nest of Tyrannus found three days
ago with 3 eggs and to day the [female] was sitting on
the same number so I took it. They rarely
I think lay more than that number here.
Afterwards landed on the point where I 
found an olive back [olive-backed thrush] Sunday, sitting close on
and [an] empty nest, and to day she was [delete]still[/delete]
again on the nest allowing me to nearly 
toutch [touch] her before moving, though the nest con-
tained but a single egg. Saw an immature
Haliaetus [Haliaeetus leucocephalus], which has been hanging round this
part of the lake for some time, plunge for 
a fish. He swooped more deliberately than
Pandion [Pandion haliaetus] and struck [delete]more[/delete] less heavily.
In the afternoon went out with Godwin &
Harrington to try for a pickerel but did not
have a bite. Saw a Picus pubescens launch
out repeatedly after a large species of Diptera. He
caught one or two on wing but showed much
less adroitness than Sphyrapicus. A little later
saw another pubescens [Picus pubescens] following the same
employment. Sphyrapicus apparently gets
his subsistence now altogether in that way
and is nearly as good a marksman as
any of the Tyrannidae. The winter wren
sings very little now - indeed not at all except
early in the morning & at sunset. Young Quiscalus
[margin]are flying and Purdie [Henry A. Purdie] came across a brood of young. B. umbellus [Bonasa umbellus] just hatched apparently but following the mother through the woods.[/margin]