Lake Umbagog.
1896
May 13
(No 2)
[May 13, 1896]

Philadelphia Vireos

  There were at least two Philadelphia Vireos for I heard one singing 
after shooting one (which proved to be a male although it was
silent). They were in old-growth yellow birch & beech woods in
the deep hollow just east of the Brown clearing.

Woodcock
Nest of Hermit Thrush

  In this Brown clearing we heard a Woodcock peeping last evening
and we searched the covers in the neighborhood closely this
morning but without success although we started the male bird
on the upper side of the east path where it crosses the run.
Higher up on the hillside in a thin growth of young poplars & birches
with a few young spruces & balsams intermixed Watrous found a
Hermit Thrush's nest containing 4 fresh eggs. The nest was in
the side of a mound covered with last years brakes most of them
fallen down, some partially over arching the nest, which however,
was so exposed the [that] W. [Watrous] found it without flushing the bird
which, indeed he did not see at all.

Visit Lake House

  In the afternoon I crossed the Lake House with Jim in a
new sailing canoe which he made for me last winter a larger
& abler sailing canoe than any that I have ever before used.
At the mill I changed to my old canoe which I paddled
back.

Stubs nearly all gone.

   There are few stubs left on the Lake House meadows the
lumbermen having cut most of them down. I saw no
White-bellied Swallows and but few Bronzed Grackles there.

Veery, Woodcock

  In the evening Watrous & I walked to the Sargent clearing hearing
a Wilson's Thrush calling by the Lake shore & two Woodcock
peeping in the hilly pasture above (ie S. [South] of) Sargents house. One
bird rose & sang three or four times.