"Nootings of the Barred Owl. 1876. Thursday June 15 MAINE (L. Umbagog) Mests of J. georgiana Nest (otl) D Blackburnie " " Swainsoni Pennatipes Clear and very list. Thun. 85°. Stated up the lake in the boat with Ston after breakfast and landed on the left hand shore. Found D. castanea and D. Blackburniae my abundant at this place and climbed to a number of their nests, Most of these were evidently last years nests of D. castanea but I found one that was very probably the last year nest of D. Blackburniae as it was totally unlike any warbler nest that I have seen. I found him a deserted & thoroughly packed nest of J. Swaini with 2 eggs. Also found another near it which I took to be the second nest of the same bird. 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 with an egg & two nests of O. Swainsoni, the first with one the second with 2 eggs. Also shot a & Sphysapus after watching him catching flies for young twins. 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 Russeas which was very neatly placed under some slabs of bark that had peeled off a dead stub. After dinner went up on the left bank of Cemetery river and found two nests of O. 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 with the 9 sitting on 4 fresh eggs. It was built in a fir sapling about 4 ft. up. Returned to the house I started out again and hunted the woods above Godwins field finding another nest of D. maculosa with the 9 sitting on 4 fresh eggs, Swainston got a nest of Pennatipes pubescens with 3 fresh eggs.