Lake Umbagog.
Pine Point.
1896
September 10
  Cloudy with east wind and fine, mist-like rain at intervals.
  Spent the day about camp. Two Canada Nuthatches, three
or four Chickadees, two Winter Wrens, a Yellow rump, a
Magnolia and an Usnea Warbler, a Chipping Sparrow (young
in streaked plumage hopping about in our camp yard)
a pair of Downy Woodpeckers and a Blue Jay were the
only small birds that I noticed on our point.
[margin]Bird about
camp
Chipping Sp.
in the forest[/margin]
  The Red Squirrels are scarce one-tenth as numerous
on Pine Point as they were in 1894 & 1895 - and the
few that are here evidently have much difficulty in
getting a living for there are no pines, spruces nor
balsam cones this year, nor any maple seeds.
  The Squirrels near camp get more or less of their daily
food from our waste but those back in the woods are eating
mushrooms and the seeds of the paper birches. They
take the mushrooms up into the tree & store them
on the horizontal branches but within a day or two
they either eat or remove them.
[margin]Red Squirrels[/margin]
  Two Chipmunks visit camp daily & one comes every
few minutes & has become very tame taking nuts &
corn from our hands, entering all the camps freely
& rambling about on the floors under our feet. He
rarely eats anything that we give him but miser-like
carries it off to add to his winter's hoard. His hole
is only a few paces from the camp and in the
middle of the path that leads to the landing.