Lake Umbagog.
1896
May 14
(no 2)
[May 14, 1896]

White crowned Sparrow

  In the afternoon we went down into the Lake House cove sailing most 
of the way. Landing at Peaslee's brook we had a drink at the
spring and started a White-crowned Sparrow from a fallen top - a
beautiful bird so tame that I got within 8 ft.[feet] of it.  There was
a [female] White-throat [White-throated Sparrow] with [it] and the two acted as if they were 
mated.

Tree Swallows, Red-wings [Red-winged Blackbird].
Bronzed Grackles.

  Six White-bellied Swallows (evidently three pairs) were flying about
the stubs opposite the mouth of the brook. There were also a 
number of Red-wings [Red-winged Blackbird] & Bronzed Grackles among the stubs & in
the flooded thickets. We took two sets of 4 eggs each of the
Grackles from nests in young balsams on an island near the
Lake house landing. There were three Grackles' nests in one small 
balsam but only one had eggs & and another was certainly an old
nest. One old nest was placed in a tall alder.

Solitary Sandpipers

  We saw two solitary Sandpipers, both on floating drift wood in
coves on the wooded shores of the Lake.

Nest of Spotted Sandpiper.
White crowned Sparrows

  After tea we walked to the Pearly White farm. Birds strangely
silent although the evening was clear and still. Near Sargent's
flushed a Spotted Sandpiper from a bank on the roadside in which
we found a hollow with the beginning of her nest. Just behind
Sargent's barn were three White-crowned Sparrows hopping about together
on this turf, a beautiful sight.

White crown Sparrow [White-crowned Sparrow].
Wood Thrush

  Reaching White's we sat down on a knoll on the edge of a grove of
young pasture spruces. Twilight was gathering fast. A Grass Finch &
several Savanna Sparrows singing in the fields below us. A White-crowned
Sparrow flitting along a brush fence calling whit (very like a Chebec) but
a little fuller and more metallic). A Swainson's Thrush sang a few bars in the
spruces. A Hermit called but would not sing. Then a Wood Thrush gave
his sharp rattling challenge (whit-tit-tit-tit) a dozen times or more
within thirty yards or less. No mistaking this call in this still