Lake Umbagog.
Lower end of Lake.
1896
June 9
  A rainy day, calm, with low-floating clouds which broke apart
in the west & north a little after sunset and assumed the most
gorgeous coloring, the rain streaming down the while.
  I spent the day in the house writing. Watrons went up 
the Lake to the Gibbs farm to get some Martins' eggs. Gibbs forced
the covered off the box thus exposing two of the compartments in each
of which was a nest with two fresh eggs. One of the birds was sitting
& refused to leave her eggs, Watrons actually having to push her
to one side to ascertain what the nest contained.
[margin]Watrons 
raids a
nesting colony
of Martins
at Gibbs farm[/margin]
  He then landed on Great Island where he found three nests
of the Black-throated Blue Warbler, all in yew, one containing
four eggs very near hatching, another two fresh eggs, while the
third was empty but apparently completed. He saw (& heard)
a Greater Yellow-leg flying about over the Lake.
[margin]Three nests
of D. caerulescens 
on Great Id.[/margin]
[margin]Gr. Yellow-legs[/margin]
  After tea we walked to the Sargent farm. Birds were
either scarce or silent for we heard only a very few among
these three Wilson's Thrushes, one Peabody Bird & a Swamp Sparrow.
We also heard Nighthawks over the Woodcock covers and at
first were quite unable to decided as to which species was 
making the paap.
[margin]Night hawks[/margin]
  The grass & weeds by the roadsides & in the fields are knee high
& the country looks as if it were midsummer instead of
early June. It is a striking change from our forest surroundings
at Pine Point.
[margin]Vegetation[/margin]