Lake Umbagog, Maine.
1895
Sept.5
(no 2)
[margin]Pine Point[/margin]
  Regularly every morning with the first appearance of the sun,
(early if it be clear, sometimes not before 9 A.M. if the fog
hangs long) six or eight Chickadees, four or five Golden Crests,
three or four Canada Nuthatches, a creeper or two & a Downy
& Hairy Woodpecker come into the birch grove on the end of
Pine Point and spend from one to three or four hours there.
Almost invariably they reappear in the late afternoon & remain until near sunset.
These birds are, as I have just said, quite regular in their
appearance but the various Warblers which accompany them
change from day to day or even from hour to hour, in
numbers and species.
[margin]Camp birds[margin]
  A striking instance of this occurred to-day. The flock
during its morning visit contained less than a dozen Warblers
among which I recognized only D. virens, D. caerulescens,
D. striata and Compsothlypis. But when it returned at
about three P.M. there were more than a hundred Sylvicolidae.
Indeed I have rarely seen so large a mixed flock in this
region. The woods over a space of an acre or more were simply
swarming with birds and it was not uncommon to see a dozen
or more in the top of our small birch. Such a chirping and
twittering as they kept up, with now & then a whispered song from
a Parula Warbler or a few low notes from a Red-eyed Vireo!
Although there was not a breath of wind the foliage was constantly
agitated by the active movements of the little birds which hopped
and flitted from twig to twig or chased one another back and
forth with ceaseless energy. The Warblers fed chiefly among the leaves on or
near the terminal twigs, the Titmice & Nuthatches on the
trunks or longer branches when they made a great clacking
or rustling among the loose scales of birch back. The flock
as a whole - as well as its numbers individually - was exceedingly
active & restless moving on from tree to tree through the woods
so rapidly that at times we had to walk fast to keep
[margin]Immense
mixed flock
of Warblers etc.[/margin]