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Lake Umbagog.
Head of Great Island                                                                                                                                          
1897.                                                                                                                                                             
May 29                                                                                                                                                          
  The early morning was dead calm and the clouds appeared
to be breaking away. Indeed the sun shone out bright and
warm for several brief intervals. But by 10 a.m. the 
mountains were once more shrouded in mist and a fresh
south wind brought another deluge of rain which lasted
late into the afternoon. The sunset was clear, however, with
a fine rainbow.
  In the forenoon I took several photographs (with
Gilbert's help) in the gulf at the head of Great Island and
along the western shore of the Sweat Cove. The birds sang
freely at first but later in the day relapsed into                        
silence and collected in swarms along the more sheltered
shores where I saw nearly all the Dendroicas of this
region (including the Cape May Warbler) with Swainson's
Thurshes & Vireos flitting about among low bushes at the 
water's edge. The whole surface of the Lake was again
enlivened by the presence of myriads of swallows.
[margin]Warblers in
great variety 
flocking to
the shores
of the Lake[/margin]
  I heard three Yellow-bellied Flycatchers singing and a
Mourning Warbler. the latter in the woods on the
west side of the Sweat Cove.
[margin]Empidonax 
flaviventris[/margin]
  In the afternoon Watrous & Gilbert went around the
edge of the Gibbs farm seeing a Spruce Partridge near its
eastern extremity - a hen bird very sluggish & tame moping
or feeding listlessly in a little opening in pasture spruces.
[margin]Partridge
seen on
Gibbs farm.[/margin]
  Shad bush still in bloom. Rhodora birds just opening.
Poplars & canoe birches in mainly full leaf. Yellow birches,
maples & beaches in half-leaf.
[margin]Vegetation[/margin]