Lake Umbagog, Maine
Errol Hill Pond
1895
Sept.19
(no 2)
great many small birds; Blue Jays, a Rusty Blackbird, many
Red Bellied Nuthatches, a few Juncos etc. Every now & then a
flock of White-winged or Red Crossbills would fly overhead.
The country is literally swarming with them this autumn.
[margin]Small birds at
Errol Hill Pond[/margin]
[margin]Crossbills[/margin]
  The Red-bellied Nuthatches were catching flying insects
(which they did as adroitly as Flycatchers) and extracting
seeds from the spruce cones which they took to stubs
on rough-barked trees and stored away in small crevices for
future use. I have seen them at the latter employment
many times during the present month.
[margin]Sitta
canadensis
catching flies
& storing spruce
seeds[.margin]
  Two Hawks came sailing over the Sweat Meadow while
we were there one a fine adult Red-tail, the others
a Sparrow Hawk I thought although I did not make
it out with entire certainty.
[margin]Hawks
Red Tail H.[.margin]
  We found an old Otter track on the banks of
the Androscoggin & Will Sargent saw one (that is, a track)
the other day on [crossed]Whale's[/crossed] Moose Point.
[margin]Other tracks[/margin]
  Yesterday I saw a Black Woodchuck run over the
rocks at our landing on Pint Point.
[margin]Black Woodchuck
at Pine Point[/margin]
  Flying Squirrels have been twice seen at camp lately
one coming on the window sill while the [?] were
at supper.
[margin]Flying
Squirrels[/margin]
  It is strange that waders are so scarce this year.
As we came through the marshes this evening I heard
nothing but three or four Wilson's Snipe.
[margin]Scarcity of
Waders[/margin]