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Lake Umbagog.
1897.
May 13
  Early morning cloudy; rain began falling at about 9 A.M. 
gradually increasing until it came in sheets. I have never seen
it rain harder than it did for ten hours (11 A.M. - 9 P.M.)
The hollows in the fields quickly became ponds and the
road from Lakeside Hotel to the landing was gullied badly
by the rushing brook which followed its course down the
steep slope. There was almost no wind.
[margin]Heavy rains[/margin]
  I spent the day on the boat and made no
observations worth recording but I saw & heard many
Warblers along the neighboring shore and Watrous, who
spent two or three hours in the Sargent clearing before
the storm began reported the woods simply swarming
with small birds.
[margin]Woods alive
with birds.
About Sargent
opening.[/margin]
" [May] 14
  Clear and warm with light W. wind in the early morning
and a fresh S.E. breeze the remainder of the day.
  I went over to Upton on the steamer in the early morning
and returned in the new 18 ft. canoe paddling the whole
way, keeping close in shore, after stopping to watch or
listen for birds. In the alders near the Lake House where
I found a Wilson's Black-cap last June a [male] of this
species was in full song & I afterwards saw a [female] not far
from Lakeside. The woods along the south shore were alive
with birds scattered about & singing freely as well as in
small mixed flocks. I noted great numbers of Blackburnian
Warblers, three Black-throated Greens & many Black & Yellows, &
Parulas. Heard a Winter Wren & saw a [male] Marsh Hawk.
At evening a Wilson's Thrush called & an Olive-sided Flycatcher
sang on the Lakeside shore.
[margin]Upton.
Early arrivals.[/margin]
[margin]Wilson's Black
caps.[/margin]
[margin]Woods alive
with birds[/margin]
[margin]Marsh Hawk
Olive sided
Flycatcher.[/margin]