1893  
Sept. 21.  
(No. 2)                                                                
Bethel to Lake Umbagog
  We dined at the farm house (Killgore's) just above Poplar
Tavern. While the meal was prepared I walked down to the
river where I started a solitary Sandpiper from a bit of sandy                 
beach bordering a pool. At 1.30 we resumed our way reaching
Lakeside at about 4 o'clock. the wind abated as the sun sank
in the west and the late afternoon was comparatively calm and
the lights and shadows on the mountains singularly beautiful.
Umbagog was very blue and ruffled by streaks of wind when I
first saw it but it became nearly smooth before darkness set in.
[margin]Solitary
Sandpiper[/margin]
  Nothing seemed to have changed either along the road or
near  Lakeside during my two years absence. Indeed I did not
miss a single tree or stump.
  An adult Red-tailed hawk soaring high above the woods, a                         
flock of about thirty Tit-larks whirling over a grain stubble                             
(at Thale Brown's ) numbers of Juncos, Grass Finches and Chip-        
pies flitting about in the roadside thickets. a few Robins and
Crows and now and then a Flicker startled by the rattle of our
team from the green pastures or fields surrounding the scatter-
ad houses. Jays screaming in the woods, a Maryland Yellow-
throat and two or three Hermit thrushes in copses of mountain
maples - these comprise all the species of birds that I was able
to identify during the afternoon drive.
[margin]Tit larks[/margin]
[margin]Juncos, Chippies,
Grass Finches
Robins 
Flicker[/margin]