Lake Umbagog, Maine.
1895.
October 1
  Cloudy & cold with strong N.W. wind & occasional flurries of snow.
[margin]Return to
Cambridge.[/margin]
  We broke camp and came down to Lakeside on the
steamer late yesterday afternoon.
  This morning we started for Bethel by the stage at
8 a.m. It was a bitterly cold drive as far as the
Notch below which we had some shelter from the wind
& now & then a gleam of sunshine.
[margin]Drive to
Bethel.[/margin]
  Flickers were very numerous in Grafton & Newry. I would
have seen 30 or 40 in all and around 12 in one flock.
They were chiefly in spruce pastures & acted very wild &
restless rising at some distance ahead & taking long flights.
[margin]Colaptes
auratus[/margin]
  There were great quantities of Sparrows flying up in clouds
from gardens & patches of weeds in the fields as our stage
rattled past. As far as I could make out the greater number
were Song Sparrows and Chippies with a sprinkling of White-Throats
& Grass Finches. I positively identified three or four White Crowned
Sparrows & do not doubt that many more were seen at a
distance among the hordes of Song Sparrows.
[margin]Sparrows[/margin]
[margin]White crown
Sparrows[/margin]
  In Newry I saw two Sapsuckers and one little flock of
Bluebirds containing seven members.
[margin]Sapsuckers[/margin]
  Robins & Blue Jays appeared to be scarce & I saw only
about 25 crows in all.
  We left Bethel by train at 3.35 P.M. & reached Cambridge at 11 P.M.
  The autumn coloring was at its best this year about Sept. 20.
It was dull & faded to-day & many of the trees were leafless.
[margin]Autumn
coloring[/margin]