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Lake Umbagog.                                                                                                                                                   
1897.
May 22
(No 2)               
out through the trees and off over the cover. Without                           
moving from my position I could see the eggs through the
thin curtain or rather canopy of yew foliage. There
were [underlined]thirteen[underlined] of them none in the least covered although
there was plenty of down under and about them.
The nest was placed near the edge of the bed of yew
(which covered about 20 feet square) on firm dry ground
five or six feet above high-water mark, near the eastern
extremity of the island, and about 30 feet from the
water's edge in three directions.
[margin]Nest of
Black Duck[/margin]
  After making this interesting "find" we landed on the
island at the western end of the channel and searched
that closely but without result. We then crossed the
Sweat Cove and followed its western shore to its
extreme end tapping on all the shrubs that had
promising looking holes but without finding a single
nest. We saw four Woodpeckers of four species viz.
Downy, Hairy, Yellow-bellied and Golden-wing. At the
end of the cove we started two Whistlers and a
Broad-winged Hawk.
[margin]Sweat
Cove[/margin]
[margin]Woodpeckers[/margin]
[margin]Whistlers[/margin]
[margin]Broad wing
Hawk[/margin]
  Early in the afternoon I paddled along the shore
to the north of our anchorage as far as the Hayward  
place. Between the channel and the deserted Staples farm
the woods are low and swampy with a rather dense
growth of spruces and balsalms. In these woods near the
shore I heard two Cape May Warblers singing.
[margin]Cape May
Warblers.[/margin]
  Landing at the Staples farm I walked around it
finding a Robin's nest (with two eggs) in a pasture spruce
& seeing a number of common birds.
[margin]Robin's nest[/margin]