About a mile south, on the crest of the hill, is an overgrown field which was once part of the old Chase Farm. Here, on May 12th, 1924, I ran into an army of migrating Warblers and among them were full companies of the BAYBREAST.
In the white birches were dozens of their dark leisurely-moving forms. They were migrating at about the speed of my walk and I followed them home and there in the orchard trees was another brigade! I think, they must have rendezvoused and agreed to travel in regiments for I saw more on that day than in all previous years.
NEST: Extremely large and rough, built of dead evergreen twigs and compactly lined with fine roots, moss and bark strips; usually located well out on an evergreen limb within twenty feet of the ground.
EGGS: Three to five: pale bluish green, thickly spotted all over with brown and lilac.
Eastern North America, north to Newfoundland, southern Ungava, Keewatin and northeastern Alberta: west to the Mississippi Basin.
This subspecies is distributed from southern New Jersey to southern Florida and on the Gulf Coast to eastern Texas.