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Lake Umbagog
1897
May 26
(No 2)
  As I have said Watrous (& Gilbert) went up
the Lake this morning. They spent the day among
the stubs near the Outlet and also rowed down the
river and into Sweat's Meadow. They found three
Whistler's nests, one with 8 eggs just west of Leonard's Pond,
(but not in either of the stubs where we found nests
last year, the other two in Sweat's Meadow. One of the
latter was in the hole in the tall oak stub where we
found an addled egg & some egg shells last year. A Whistler
flew from it today when W. rapped on the stub. On
climbing to the nest he found that it contained two
eggs of the Whistler and six of the Hooded Merganser!
The third nest was only about seventy-five yards 
from the one which contained the Merganser's eggs.
[margin]Nests of the
Whistler [/margin]
  Watrous also found a Pileated Woodpecker's nest in
an oak stub in the cove between Moll's Rock &
Moll's Camp. The [female] came out when he rapped on
the tree & flew to a neighboring stub while she called
a few times bringing the [male] who at once flew to
and entered the hole when W. left him.
[margin]Nest of
Pileated
Woodpecker [/margin]
  The northern Shad-bush is now in full bloom. I saw
some five specimens this afternoon along the western 
shore of the Sweat Cove. Several of them grew out
over the water with a wall of dark evergreen foliage
(hemlocks, spruces & balsams) forming an effective
background for their snowy blossoms. They were quite
as conspicuous at a distance as are the dogwoods
(Cornus florida) along the western rivers. One was of
about the same form & shape as the crab apple tree in
our garden at home.
[margin]Shad bush 
in bloom [/margin]