Lake Umbagog.
1896
May 15
[May 15, 1896]

  Clear and warm, the forenoon dead calm, a fresh breeze from the S.W. [Southwest]
in P.M.
  Arrivals. - Troglodytes aedon, Dendroica castanea (2 [males] [in full song]) Geothlypis trichas
Dendroica virens, Geothlypis trichas (1 [in full song]) Habia ludoviciana (1 [in full song]) Cantopus
borealis (1 [in full song])

Woodpeckers have left lake
shores & taken in upland woods.
Sitta carolinensis

  Spent the forenoon on the Lake with Watrous rowing across to B. Point
and up the east shore to the deep, narrow cove near the Tidswell place
& sailing back at noon. Landed in the cove behind B. Point and
spent about three hours roaming about in the fine old beech & sugar maple
woods on the hill W. [West] of the Stone farm. Many Woodpeckers in these woods.
Saw a Hairy [Hairy Woodpecker], three Downies [Downy Woodpecker] and two pairs of Yellow bellies [Yellow-bellied Woodpecker]. There are
so few stubs left about the Lake that the Woodpeckers seem to have
nearly deserted its shore. A White-bellied Nuthatch in these beech & maple
woods.

House Wren.
Broad w. Hawk [Broad-winged Hawk]
Ducks.
Bay br. Warblers [Bay-breasted Warbler]
Yellow rumps [Yellow-rumped Warbler]
Flying Squirrel

  A House Wren singing among the stubs on B. Point, a [male] Buteo latissimus
sitting in a birch over the water & so tame that we paddled nearly under
him, a pair of Whistlers, a single [female] Whistler, and a Black Duck in
the cove just N. [North] of the point. Two Bay breasted Warblers [Bay-breasted Warbler] singing in
spruce woods beyond. Yellow rumps [Yellow-rumped Warbler] abundant all along the shore.
Started a Flying Squirrel from a hole in a stub which stood in the water
20 ft. from the shore very near the site of my old bat tree.

Woodcock.
Nest of a Partridge
Nest of Hermit Thrush
Lincoln Finch

  In the narrow deep cove saw the cut out hole where Alva Coolidge & I took
a set of Hairy Woodpecker's eggs in 1880 or 1881.
  Spent P.M. in searching the Sargent opening for Woodcock's nests. Flushed
two [males] & 1 [female] but found no nest. Watrous stumbled over a Partridges nest
on the edge of an alder run. [female] sitting & so tame that she did not move
when W. [Watrous] struck the bush forcibly not 6 inches above her head with his stick.
We did not disturb her by examining the nest. I found a Hermit Thrush's
nest with 4 fresh looking eggs in poplar sprouts, about 15 ft. from edge of pasture.
Shot a Lincoln's Finch in a bush fence by the roadside at head of Sweat Cove.