Lake Umbagog
Cambridge River Marshes
1896
September 29
  Clear and warm with light variable winds.
  Spent the day at Upton attending to the unpacking and
stowing away of our effects. Saw very few birds, the
most interesting being a little flock of five Ereunetes and
three Ring-necks on one of the bars near the mouth of the
Cambridge, and a flock of 26 Titlarks flying about over 
the marshes. There was also a flock of eleven Sheldrakes
in the pond just below the Lake House. They were having
a fine time playing about and thrashing the water with
their wings after their usual custom.
[margin]Waders[/margin]
[margin]Ereunetes[/margin]
[margin]Titlarks[/margin]
  Early this morning I heard a White-crowned Sparrow
chirping loudly &incessantly outside my window, probably
in the thicket near the stable.
[margin]White-crown
Sparrow.[/margin]
" [September] 30  
  Heavy rain during the night & early this morning followed by
a clear warm day with strong S. E. wind.
 To Upton for the day as usual, paddling out in the early
morning and sailing back at night.
  There were five Ereunetes and four Ring-necks on the flats
to-day, doubtless the same birds left there last evening
with the addition of another Ring-neck, near Peaslee's bend
I saw three Solitary Sandpipers and a Sparrow Hawk.
[margin]Waders[/margin]
  The autumn coloring reached its fullest perfection here
on the 28th and has since been on the wane although
it is still brilliant enough. It came on very suddenly
with the warm weather which began on the 25th. Before
that date there had been but a trifling change from the midsummer coloring.
[margin]Autumn coloring[/margin]