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Lake Umbagog.
1897
May 12
  Early morning calm and slightly foggy. An east wind
sprang up about 8 A.M. bringing rain which fell
steadily & at times heavily through the remainder of the day.
  Taking a short walk immediately after breakfast
I saw a few Warblers or rather but one small flock
which contained a Parula, two Black & Yellows, and
a few Yellow rumps. Watrous who went much further
reported seeing almost no Warblers. In the afternoon,
however, he found the woods alive with them and
I had a similar experiences near the Lake House
where I spent the day on the house boat getting it
in order for a start. During the forenoon I noticed
no birds excepting Robins, Blackbirds, Peabody Birds &
a few other such early-arriving species; but at about
2 P.M. Warblers of half-a-dozen kinds appeared
everywhere in the thickets along the shore and one,
a beautiful male Blackburnian, paid our boat a visit
alighting first on the roof of the cabin and then hopping 
along on the tiller.
[margin]Migration.
Few birds
about this 
morning
A big
flight reaches
here in
the afternoon
No doubt
the first
this month.[/margin]
  From this I infer that the great flight noted at
Bethel yesterday did not arrive at Umbagog until
this afternoon. It may be, however, that they halted,
this morning, on some of the higher ridges or mountain
sides and worked their way down to the Lake shoes
later in the day.
  As I have just said I spent the day getting the
house boat in order. At 5 P.M. we hoisted sail and
made a quick run across the flooded meadows to
Lakeside.
[margin]We sail
house boat
to
Lakeside.[/margin]