50
Lake Umbagog.
1897.
May 12
(No 2)
  On the way over to the Lake House this morning
we landed at Peaslee's spring. Just as our boat
reached the shore a female Whistler flew from a
large hole in a big yellow birch which stands near
the mouth of the brook & on the very edge of the
water at this season. I had heard that there was a
nest in this tree last season and I was looking
directly at the hole when the bird came out but
nonetheless I did not actually get my eye on her until
she was in the air. She started when we were about
20 ft. from the base of the tree & flying heavily past
us, her wings whistling audibly but not very loudly
alighted some fifty rods off on the flooded meadow.
Half-an-hour later & again in the afternoon I
saw her in company with her mate fly into the
cove where the nest is situated. The hole is a 
natural cavity nearly two feet in height by a foot in
width with it edges everywhere rounded in by bark.
The tree is apparently alive and save for this cavity, sound.
The hole is about 20 ft. above the ground.
[margin]Nest of
Whistler
near the
Peaslee spring[/margin]
  Besides these Whistlers we saw a pair of Black Ducks.
I am told by the Lakeside people that a large
flock of Geese alighted in the Lake on the 8th
and another flock on the 9th while two birds were
seen on the 10th. All these Geese were seen either 
between Birch & B. Points or in Sargent's Cove.
[margin]Black Ducks[/margin]
[margin]Canada
Geese in
the Lake[/margin]