Lake Umbagog.
Head of Lake - Pine Point
1896
May 22
[May 22, 1896]

  Forenoon cloudy with S.W. [Southwest] wind and light showers. Early
afternoon clear & warm. A heavy thunder shower accompanied
by a gale of wind from the N.W. [Northwest] in the later afternoon.

We open the camp.
Big birds.
Swallows

  Jim Bernier opened the camp at Pine Point two days ago
and Watrous & I joined him this morning. On the way
up the Lake we saw two Ospreys, a Great Blue Heron, two
Loons, a drake Golden-eyed Duck and a great number of
Swallows. The last-named seemed to be pretty evenly
distributed over the whole Lake.

Small woodland birds noted on the point.

  Despite the gloomy weather the woods on Pine Point
seemed more beautiful than ever when we landed there
at 9 a.m. Having never visited the place before in spring
I was eager to know what birds were found there. Before
the steamer reached the float I heard a Water Thrush
singing in the cove and the voices of Red-bellied Nuthatches,
Parula [Northern Parula Warbler], Yellow-rumped [Yellow-rumped Warbler], Blackburnian [Blackburnian Warbler], and Black & Yellow
Warblers [Black and Yellow Warbler] greeted me from every side as I followed the
forest path to the camp. Swifts & Barn Swallows were flying
just above the trees twittering. A little later a Winter Wren, only
the third I have heard about the Lake this year, burst
into song close behind the camp. There were no Sparrows
of any kind & no Bay breasted [Bay-breasted Warbler] or Black-throated Green Warblers.
(the last seems to be a rare bird at Umbagog this year)
I heard one Vireo, either a Red-eye [Red-eyed Vireo] or Philadelphia [Philadelphia Vireo].
  After dinner Watrous followed the wood road to Rapid River
but saw nothing of much interest. He reported numbers of
Warblers but he does not know them well enough to identify species
  During a walk I took to Osgood's Point between 5 & 6 P.M.