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Lake Umbagog.
Head of Great Island.
1897.
May 21 
  It rained heavily during the night and fitfully in
brief showers through most of the day. The forenoon was very
warm - almost sultry - with light S. wind but early in the
afternoon the wind changed to N.W. and the evening was
decidedly cool.
  There was a grand burst of song at daybreak this
morning the Swainsons and Water Thrushes taking the principal
parts. Birds sang freely through most of the forenoon also.
The forest about us seemed to be literally alive with them
especially along the shores of the channel at the head of
Great Island and on the island at the western end of
this channel. I noted for the first time a Red-eyed vireo
and a Scarlet Tanager, both in full song. Canadian Warblers
appeared to be common and were singing freely. A Rose-
breasted Grosbeak also sang near our anchorage. Three
Bobolinks flew overhead high in air clinking. Parula,
Blackburnians, Black & Yellow, & Yellow rumped Warblers
were especially common and Black-throated Blue Warblers
were simply everywhere. I heard one Black-poll (this
also is a new arrival) one Winter Wren, one Brown Curlew,
and one Bay-breasted Warbler.
[margin]Birds
singing at
sunrise[/margin]
[margin]Bobolinks.[/margin]
[margin]Warblers[/margin]
  Woodpeckers appear to be almost as numerous here
as they used to be all around the Lake twenty years
ago. I heard or saw today three Hairy, one Downy,
one Yellow-bellied and one Arctic Three-toed within
half a mile of our anchorage.
[margin] Woodpeckers[/margin]
  There were also several Bald Eagles about & late in 
the afternoon two brown birds went to roost in a hemlock
at the head of the cove where we are anchored. For
[margin]Eagles[/margin]