Lake Umbagog.
1896
May 13
[May 13, 1896]

  Clear with light but cool N.W. [Northwest] wind; a simply perfect day.

Vegetation nearly as far
advanced here as in eastern Mass.

  Took breakfast at 6 a.m. and immediately afterward started
out with Watrous taking the road east. During the drive from
Bethel yesterday I could detect but little change in the vegetation
and that little, strange to say, indicated a greater advance north
of the Notch than south of it. Moosewood (Viburnum lantanoides)
Shad-bush, Purple Trilliums, Red Cherry & Canada Plum were in full
bloom the entire distance. The Paper Birch and Poplars were
in about half leaf and cast a good shade. Fly Honeysuckle
in bloom. Dog-tooth Violets abundant by the roadside in most
places.
  This was the condition of things here this morning. In fact the
trees and shrubs in the woods about the Lake were nearly
as advanced as they were in Massachusetts when I left
there on the 11th [May 11, 1896]. Yet the ice went out of Umbagog only
a little more than a week ago. The weather since has been
very warm. On May 10th [May 10, 1896] the thermometer here rose to 95 [degrees]
the same figure precisely that it reached on that day at Bethel, at
Portland, at Boston and at Chester, Connecticut - according
to hearsay testimony.

Most of the summer birds already here

  The country was alive with birds this morning. In fact the
greater part of the summer residents seem to have already
arrived. In the course of an hour I saw or heard the
Nashville [Nashville Warbler], Parula [Parula Warbler], Black-throated Blue [Black-throated Blue Warbler], Cape May [Cape May Warbler], Blackburnian [Blackburnian Warbler], &
Black & Yellow Warblers, the Oven Bird, Water Thrush and
Redstart, the Philadelphia Vireo, a White crowned Sparrow,
numbers of Juncos, White-throated [White-throated Sparrow], Chipping [Chipping Sparrow] & Song Sparrows,
a Yellow-bellied Woodpecker, a Kingbird, many Swifts &
Barn Swallows & a few Eave Swallows besides others.