Lake Umbagog, Maine.
1895
Aug 31
  The sun rose clear this morning but the sky cloudy [sic] over
before nine o'clock and it began raining heavily at noon
& continued until nearly sunset.
[margin]Lakeside[/margin]
  In the forenoon I walked along the road to the Brown
opening & then turned into the pasture on the left
and strolled down to the Lake shore where I took
several photographs.
[margin]Walk to
Brown farm.[/margin]
  There were a good many small birds in the roadside
thickets and one large mixed flock in the woods but
I identified only a few species among them three White-throated
Sparrows, three Juncos, a Black & Yellow Warbler, three Maryland
yellow-throats (one an adult [male]) several Red-bellied Nuthatches,
Chickadees etc.
[margin]Small birds[/margin]
  Crossbills were seldom out of sight or hearing but I noted only
Loxia minor to-day. 
  Eagles are very numerous. There were four in sight at once
to-day from the hotel piazza, two of them old birds.
[margin]Eagles numerous[/margin]
  [delete]A flock of eight[/margin] At about 9 A.M. I heard the chink of
Bobolinks very faintly & looking up saw a flock of eight
whirling about at an immense height, looking, in fact, no larger
than so many specks of dust. Had the sky been blue
instead of grayish white these birds could not possibly have been seen.
[margin]bobolinks[/margin]
  With the rain came a perfect swam of Swallows- fully fifty
of which four or five were Barn Swallows, one or two White-bellies
and all the rest Eave Swallows. They perched in a 
long row on a fence rail where four Kingbirds joined them. 
When the rain slackened they would scatter & fly about
over the fields. They all left before sunset.
[margin]Swallows.[/margin]