Lake Umbagog.
1896
May 28
(no 2)
[May 28, 1896]

  In the afternoon Watrous and I paddled around Glaspy Cove
and nearly to B. Brook Cove spending about two hours
and sailing back just before the rain came. We found
no nests excepting what seemed to be the nest of a Chickadee
in the branch of a prostrate paper birch & evidently made
after the tree had fallen. With a twig we drew out some
of the nest material but we saw no birds near.
  Woodpeckers of three or four species were common along
these shores & there were a few Swallows also. We
heard one Broad-winged Hawk & one Flicker (Colaptes)
a rather rare bird here this season.

Spotted Sandpipers

  Spotted Sandpipers are amazingly abundant all around
the Lake. Not a point nor an island but has at least
one pair and they fly out of the bushes all along the
shores as we approach but we cannot find their nests. What
becomes of them and their progeny in late summer & early autumn?

Acadian Owl "saw-whetting" at midday.

  Near the Moll's Rock spring in the large hemlocks I heard
the Saw-whet Owl this forenoon at a little before eleven, the
Lake dead calm, the sun shining brightly at the time.
He filed his saw unceasingly for a little more than a minute
uttering regularly 4 notes every 5 seconds. I was perhaps 200 yards
from shore at the time. At this distance his voice sounded
precisely as when heard at camp last evening but it was
louder of course & perhaps still more metallic in quality.
Jim says that this Owl often calls by day & at all hours.