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Lake Umbagog
1897
May 20
  Cloudy, the forenoon calm, a fresh S. wind in P.M. Warm and sultry.
  I spent the early part of the forenoon photographing the
Hermit's nest in the Brown clearing, exposing six plates getting two
pictures of the sitting bird at a distance of about 3 ft. [feet]
accomplishing this by setting up my camera with the slide drawn 
and then going off into the woods for half-an-hour or more to
give the birds a chance to return. I worked the shutter by
means of a long rubber tube.
[margin]Photographing
nest of
Hermit T.[/margin]
  The woods into which I retreated during the intervals of
waiting proved to contain a large number of small birds
including a Golden-crest, a Brown creeper, a Bay breasted warbler,
two male Blackburnians, a female Black-throated Green, & a pair
of Black-throated Blue Warblers, a Canadian Warbler, a 
solitary Vireo (in full song), a Hermit Thrush (singing), several
Peabody birds, an Oven bird, and a Canada Jay. The last
was exceedingly noisy fairly startling us with its shrill
Hawk-like screams which, at first, I did not recognise.[sic]
While well back in these woods I heard the chink of
a Bobolink indirectly passing overhead very high in air
& no doubt migrating. Two Bluebirds flying in company
& uttering the flight call only also passed high over these
woods.
[margin]Small 
Woodland
birds[/margin]
[margin]Canada 
Jay[/margin]
[margin]Bobolink[/margin]
[margin]Bluebirds[/margin]
  On my way back I found a Cape May Warbler in
full song in the pasture spruces just below the road
opposite the place where the cart path to the Brown farm
enters. This birds [bird's] song regularly had seven notes this
morning. A Cape May sang in the same place last year.
[margin]Cape May
Warbler[/margin]
  A Bobolink was singing in Lakeside meadow as I passed
through it on my return to the boat.
[margin]Bobolink[/margin]