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Cambridge to Lake Umbagog
1897.
May 10
 Cloudy with light rain in the late afternoon and evening.
  Left Boston at 9 a.m. and reached Bethel
at 4.30 P.M. Dr Gehring met me at the station and
we drove directly to his new house on the hill above the
Bethel House. After tea we walked about his grounds for
an hour or more. A fine, soft rain falling the air still
and fragrant. Peabody Birds, Robins & Chippies singing,
swarms of Chimney Swifts flying about overhead. As
twilight fell a Woodcock began peeping and singing
in and over the fields - a fine singer he was too. Still
later two Whippoorwills sang in the distance. Hylas in
great numbers all night near the house.
[margin]Woodcock
singing at
Bethel[/margin]
" [May] 11   
  Early morning foggy.  Remainder of day clear with warm
south wind.
  Spent the forenoon walking about near the house with
Dr Gehring. The swampy thickets on both sides of the farming
land were simply alive with birds chiefly Warblers of
which I identified by their songs Mniotilta, H. ruficapilla, 
Compsothlypis, Dendroica coronata, pennsylvanica, maculosa
caerulescens. The Nashville Warblers were the most numerous.
There were also a Brown Thrasher in full song, a solitary
Vireo, a Junco, small Peabody Birds, Song Sparrows, Chippies etc.
[margin]Warblers[/margin]
[margin]Brown Thrasher[/margin]
  At 12 M. I started for the Lake in company with
Watrous and Gilbert. The roads were in fairly good condition,
the weather was delightful and the drive was in every way
as pleasant as possible. We saw a good many common birds
& in Newry, by the roadside, about 3 1/2 miles from Bethel,
two Yellow Palm Warblers. In Grafton three Broad winged Hawks
were seen.