Lake Umbagog, Maine
Pine Point
1895
Sept.21
  Forenoon much like that of yesterday but warmer, the ther.
rising to 82 [degrees] at 12.30. A strong, steady west wind all the
afternoon.
  At 7 A.M. while I was bathing in the Cove a flock
of 17 Blue Jays started from the woods on the Point and
rose to a height of fully 2000 feet going up in a spiral
course of about half-a-mile in width & making only one
& one half turns during the ascent. They then started off
towards the south-west flapping steadily until they faded
out of sight in the distance. An hour later a flock of
fourteen came over the Point at a height of about 200 feet
& letting their wings hurtling down precisely like
those seen yesterday. The sound they made was so loud
that Jim Bernier who was lying in his tent came
running out thinking, as he said, that a flock of
Scoters must be pitching down into the Lake. I am
puzzled by these evolutions. What do they mean? Apparently
the flock of 17 were starting on migration. Did some of them
return or were the 14 birds another lot? If the latter
why should one flock start on migration & another end a 
journey at nearly the same hour? On all these occasions
the Jays, unlike migrating Crows, have been severely silent
not a single scream did I hear on either morning.
[margin]Cyanocitta
cristata
migrating in
early morning[/margin]
[margin]A flock pitches
down with
loud rushing 
of wings[/margin]
  There were only a few scattered Warblers on the Point
to-day. What became of the horde of yesterday. I did not
hear them depart last evening although I listened long & carefully.
[margin]Camp birds[/margin]
[margin]Migration[/margin]
  At about 9 o'clock to-night I saw a Flying Squirrel shoot
like a meteor across the opening in front of our camp It
"flew" about thirty yards before I lost sight of it descending
in thin distance from a height of 40 to a height of 10 feet.
[margin]Flying
Squirrel[/margin]