87.
Lake Umbagog.
Pine Point
1897
May 28
(No 5)
  It had now begun to rain smartly so we rowed across
the Lake for Pine Point. A pair of Loons swam slowly
out of the boat cove as we approached and I could hear
Water Thrushes singing all along the shores of the point.
The camp proved to be safe - indeed everything was just as
we left it last autumn save that the Porcupines had made
havoc with the loose barrels & boxes behind the camp gnawing
some of them all to pieces. 
[margin]Porcupine
work[/margin]
  We lunched in the camp and then I took a short walk 
around the knoll hearing the following birds: Troglodytes hyemalis
(1), Regulus satrapa (1), Sitta canadensis (1), Compsothlypis (2),
D. blackburniae (3), D. caerulescens (1), D. castanea (1), D. coronata
(4), Seiurus aurocapillus (1), S. noveboracensis (3), Setophaga (2), 
Cyanocitta (1).
[margin]Birds
noted near
my camp.[/margin]
  Soon after this Jim & I started back for the house boat
leaving Watrous & Gilbert to spend the remainder of the 
day looking for nests. They found only two, both of
Sphyrapicus and both in Black Island Cove. They
did not molest or closely examine either of these
nests.
   The forest of stubs about the Outlet was simply alive
with small birds. Crow Blackbirds & Tree Swallows were
nearly as numerous as they used to be twenty years ago &
the same may be said of the Downy & Yellow - bellied
Woodpeckers but we saw only one Hairy. Song Sparrows were
singing on every side although there was not a yard of dry
land for a quarter of a mile in any direction. Parula
Warblers & Yellow-rumps were also numerous. We saw one White -
bellied Nuthatch in the very place where I found a nest in
1879 or 1880. Only one Duck - a Black Duck - was seen.
[margin]Abundance
of birds
in stub
forests at
Outlet.[/margin]