Lake Umbagog.
Pine Point.
1896
August 25
  Another and still rarer day, cloudless with practically
no wind from morning to night. The thermometer rose to only
72 [degrees] at noon but the sun was hot on the water.
  My cook, Charley Tidswell, came from Bethel yesterday and
we went up the Lake on the streamer this morning taking
a great load of supplies and utensils for the camp. 
Will Sargent has been at Pine Point since the 21st and
we found every thing there in perfect order. The wood and
shore never looked more beautiful than when we landed
there at about nine o'clock. There were two Kingfishers
winding their rattles in the boat cove but the woods
were almost barren of bird life. During the day I saw
in all scarce a dozen small birds including a Bay-breasted,
Black-throated Blue, Yellow-rumped and Canadian Warbler,
a Restart (ad. [male]), a Red eyed Vireo, a Red bellied Nuthatch,
several Chickadees and two Hudson Bay Titmice (heard).
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  Gulls have been unusually numerous about the Lake this
summer. Six of them were flying about off the point this
afternoon making a great clamor. The sound of their
wild, ringing voices carried me back to the experience
of last June & July in Penobscot Bay. I heard every one
of their different calls this afternoon. Will Sargent says
that they were still more numerous last evening and
that he counted eleven in sight at one time. I[sic] [He] also
affirms that he has seen four occupied nests this season
there on B. Pond and one on Rapid River just above
the old pines. All were in trees two on the tops of dead
stubs, two on the branches of green pines.
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