Lake Umbagog, Maine.
1895
Sept.5
  Calm, warm & rather sultry, the sun peeping out at brief intervals
through the clouds, which covered the sky most of the day.
[margin]Outlet
Marshes[/margin]
  At about 8 A.M. I took the cruising canoe and paddled across
the Lake through Richardson's Carry and back by way of
Leornard's Pond & Moon Point. The water is higher than usual
and the marshes near the Outlet are so wholly submerged
that there is no finding ground whatever for the smaller waders of
which I saw now excepting a solitary bird which looked
like a Semipalmated Sandpiper & which was flying high up.
Six Black Ducks were swimming well out in the Lake &
I started three Wood Ducks from this favorite nook among
the fallen tops on the islands in Leonard's Pond. Two
Kingbirds were sitting on the stubs at the entrance to
this little pond & an Osprey, two Bald Eagles, two brown
Marsh Hawks & numerous Kingfishers were perched near or flying
about its shore.
[margin]Water too
high for
small waders[/margin]
[margin]A lone
Sandpiper
Black Ducks
Wood Ducks[/margin]
[margin]Kingbirds
Osprey, Eagles
Marsh Hawks
Kingfishers
Swallows[/margin]
  But the most interesting sight was that of a flock of
at least seventy or eighty Swallows which were skimming about
over the open marshes. I detected a Bank Swallow and
three or four Barn Swallows among them but practically the
whole swarm was made up of Eave Swallows. Faxon tells me
that this species has been unusually abundant in Mass. this 
year. It would seem to have increased greatly here as well
for I never saw anything like so many about Umbagog before
& I have rarely seen it at all so late in the season.
[margin]Increase of
Petrochelidon
lurifrons[/margin]
  Will Sargent saw a large Gray Squirrel on Pine Point
this forenoon. He tells me that two were killed
in Upton last autumn & that he found a third
floating dead in the Lake.
[margin]Gray Squirrels[/margin]