Lake Umbagog.
1896
September 9
  Clear, the forenoon calm, a light S.E. breeze with gathering
clouds in the afternoon.
  Spent the day on B. Brook Point with C. & E.R.S.
On a sandy part of the shore near the spring we
found numerous fresh tracks made, so Will Sargent
asserted positively, by a very large buck, a large doe &
two fawns of this season. The track of a buck is
much blunter at the toes than that of a doe, Will
pointed out to us.
[margin]A day at
B. Brook
Point[/margin]
  An Eagle, an Osprey, a Broad-winged Hawk and a
Kingfisher were seen along this shore & a Blue Jay,
a few Warblers and a band of eleven Chickadees were
roaming about in the woods. The Chickadees evidently
wanted to cross the cove - about ¼ of a mile wide -
but were half afraid to venture on even so short
an aerial journey. They made several false starts,
rising 50 ft or more above the tree tops, starting out
over the Lake [delete][?][/delete] chirping encouragement to one another
& turning back after going 100 yards or less! Finally
they divided into two parties & went across. Jim found
a Chickadee floating dead in mid-lake yesterday
morning just after the fog cleared so it seems that
they sometimes perish by drowning as the Warblers,
Vireos, Sparrows & other small birds so often do.
[margin]Chickadees
hesitate to
cross an arm
of the Lake[/margin]
  The Chickadees are evidently increasing rapidly in numbers
about the Lake shore. Up to within three days we
have had only a single bird at Pine Point & I have
seen but few elsewhere. On the 7th three appeared
about our camp and yesterday these were five or six.
  Warblers appeared to be scarcer everywhere to-day as well
as yesterday but there was a heavy migration to-night with many Thrushes.