Lake Umbagog
Trip up Cambridge River.
1896
June 12
  Weather similar to that of yesterday but with more sunshine
& a somewhat less strong but yet violent wind.
  At 8 A.M. I sailed across to the Lake House & Jim & I
started up Cambridge River. We rowed as far as the Forks
& then paddled about half way up B. Meadows when we came
to an obstruction in the way of a bridge and stopped to
eat lunch first building a smudge to keep off the black flies
which were very numerous.
  After lunch I spent half-an-hour or so tramping about on
the meadow & then we started back landing at the Forks to
peel some birch bark and reaching the mill at about 4 P.M.
  Along the course of the river in the swampy balsam spruce &
hardwood forest between the Mill & the Forks I heard only rather common
birds & none too many of them. There were a fair number
of Water Thrushes, a good many Swamp & Song Sparrows, a few
Black & Yellow, Blackburnians & Chestnut-sided Warblers & now
& then a Yellow rump or Maryland Yellow-throat. The most
interesting species observed here were the Rusty Blackbird of which
I saw two or three (one of them harrrying a Broad-wing Hawk)
the Brown Creeper (a single bird singing in the woods about 100 yds
above the mill pond) and the Golden-crested Kinglet of which
two were heard. Wilson's Thrushes & Olive-backs were both rather
common. There were only a few Woodpeckers, Sapsuckers chiefly.
[margin]Birds noted
between the
Mill & Forks[/margin]
[margin]Rusty Blackbirds[/margin]
  On B. Meadows we started two Bitterns, three Black Ducks,
& two Hooded Merganser (together, but apparently females) & saw or
heard Swamp Sparrows, Savanna Sparrows (a pair), Song Sparrows,
Traill's Flycatchers, Maryland Yellow-throats, Chestnut-sided Warblers,
Eave Swallows, Chimney Swifts, a Crow & a Great Blue Heron, two
Flickers, and a flock of fully 50 Red Crossbills.
[margin]Bitterns
Black Ducks
Hooded Mer.
Sparrows[/margin]
[margin]Crossbills[/margin]