Lake Umbagog, Maine.
1895
Sept 5
(no 3)
up with the throng. Under these conditions it was difficult
to identify any large number of its members but with the
aid of my glass I made out the following: Dendroica virens
(10 or 12) all [female][female] or young) D. caerulescens, (6) D. maculosa (6), D. striata (4 juv),
D. castanea (2 pair), Compsothlypis americana (5 or 6), Hel. ruficapilla (1 ad  [male]
sang once in loud, full tones) D. coronata (4) Sylvania Canadensis (1 juv [male])
Vireo olivaceus (4) V. solitarius (1 pair).
[margin]Mixed flock
of Warblers etc [/margin]
  It is evident that the Chickadees, Nuthatches, Kinglets Creepers &
Woodpeckers, which do not vary in numbers, are local birds which
make their daily rounds over nearly the same ground and
that the Warblers, Vireos etc. are migrants which come in
from the north during the night and spend only one day or
a portion of a day in the neighborhood.
  Kingfishers are unusually numerous about the Lake this autumn.
Every little nook or indentation of the shore has its birds and the
larger coves have three or four who are continually fighting &
chasing over another about in the attempt to sustain or secure
the best fishing grounds. When the Lake is calm as it has
been to-day one can hear the plunge of a Kingfisher half-a-mile
or more away, a dull, full thump like that of a large stone
thrown into the water.
[margin]Kingfishers[/margin]
  Every morning a little after sunset two or three Kingfishers
came to Pine Point to spend the night. They fly directly
into the forest and go to roost among the densest foliage,
often in a spruce or arbor vitae, from four to ten rods back
from the shore.
[margin]Kingfishers
roosting in
forest on
Pine Point[/margin]