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Lake Umbagog
Head of Great Island
1897
May 26
  Cloudy and cool with rather fresh N.W. wind.
  I spent the morning in the cabin writing. At noon
three Fish Hawks entered our cove and flew around it
all whistling at once, making the wooded shores ring. To
my ears this whistling call is even more musical than
that of the Martin which it somewhat resembles. One
of the birds carried a small fish in its talons but
neither of the other two attempted to molest it. An
Eagle had just passed through the gut and out of sight
when the Fish Hawks appeared.
[margin]Ospreys[/margin]
  Immediately after dinner I started for Lakeside in 
the new canoe making the distance from the gut to
Lakeside landing in just thirty minutes, under sail.
After getting some things at the hotel I paddled back
keeping close under the western shore. Every part of
the lower arm of the Lake including all the coves
was literally swarming with swallows & swifts which
were nowhere massed but, on the contrary, were very
evenly distributed.  I must have seen upwards of a
thousand in all and Watrous who spent the day up
the Lake reports every part of it, as far at
least as Pine Point, was similarly enlivened by the
presence of these birds of which he says he saw several
thousands. They all flew very close to the water
even the Swifts skimming just over the crests of
the waves.
[margin]Sail to
Lakeside &
paddle back[/margin]
[margin] Swallow         
&
Swifts 
Swarming
over the
Lake [/margin]
  At evening the Herring Gulls alighted in our cove
& swam about for some time close to the edge of the woods.
[margin]Herring
Gulls [/margin]