Lake Umbagog, Maine
Pine Point
1895
Sept.20
  A glorious September day, clear, warm, with only an occasional
puff of wind to ruffle the calm surface of the Lake.
  Having much writing and other work to do I did not
get far away from camp but nevertheless the day was
richer in interesting observations than any previous day this
month. This was partly owing to chance but partly also
to the fact that the woods or the point were alive with
birds from morning to night. For the past week or so
there have been few small land birds except our local Titmice
Creepers, Nuthatches etc. and I had begun to think that
most of the September migrants had passed by especially
as I heard no Warblers or Thrushes migrating at night.
But last night the lisping of Warblers was almost
incessant and this morning they swarmed in our woods.
They kept high in the trees at first & I could not make out
many of them but at length a flock of about 100 descended into
the birch second-growth near the end of the Point where I
was able to review them with some success. I positively
identified Dendroica blackburniae (1 [female]) D. castanea (1 jur), D. virens
(1 ad [male], 6 or 8 [female] [female] or jur [male] [male]), D. caerulescens (several), D. coronata (several),
Vireo olivaceus (2), V. solitarius (1), V. philadelphicus (1) Dryobates
pubescens (2) and the usual mob of Titmice, Nuthatches &
Kinglets. I got very near the Philadelphia Vireo and had a
good view of him.
[margin]Camp birds[/margin] 
[margin]Heavy flight
last night and big
mixed flock
on the Point
this morning[/margin]
  It is singular that I see so few specimens of D. striata
here in autumn. No doubt many escape my notice in
these dense old woods but still they cannot be very common.
For several days pat small flocks of Juncos have been about us.
To-day I saw actually the first Hermit Thrush, a solitary
bird flitting about near a fallen top.
[margin]Scarcity of Dend. striata
in autumn[/margin]