Lake Umbagog.
Cambridge River Marshes.
1896
August 15
(No 2)
  I went to Upton this afternoon at the usual time
sailing across and paddling back in the early evening
taking my supper in the canoe. Large birds were scarcer
than usual but I saw Whistlers, Herons etc.
  A little after sunset I heard two Night Hawks peeping
rapidly as if they were rising to boom but I did not
hear them boom nor did I see them & presently the peeping
sound ceased.
[margin]Nighthawks[/margin]
  At the Lake House a pair of Solitary Sandpipers came
circling high over the marshes late in the afternoon.
[margin]First Solitary
Sandpipers[/margin]
  Last evening & this I saw a flock of about 200 Swallows
representing all four of the species found here flying low
over the Cambridge River marshes towards Lake House.
I think they were on the way to the roost as they
did not return. Very probably they pass the night in
the bushes on or near the floating island. I must
investigate this.
[margin]Swallows[/margin]