Lake Umbagog journals, 1871-1916 (inclusive)
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Dendroica caerulescens. cofer ⑥ Lake Umbagog, Maine. Nest. 1896. This morning Watrous took me to the nest of D.caerules- June 3. cens which he found building May 24th. It had four eggs to- day and the female was sitting. She was very tame allowing me to set up my camera within four feet of the nest and when started off returning within a few minutes and resuming her task. The nest was on Spelman's Point on a hillside in a hollow surrounded by fallen spruce tops, densely shaded by big hemlocks and filled with a rank growth of yew. I got several pictures of the nest and sitting bird. June 4. Watrous took me to another nest of D.caerulescens this morning - in a bed of stunted yew within two rods of the path to Glaspy Cove and not far from the latter. I photographed the nest but the bird was too shy and nervous to catch on my plate.