97
Lake Umbagog.
Outlet & Leonard's Pond.
1897
May 31
(No 2)
 Besides the birds just mentioned & heard Crossbills (evidently
a large flock & flying over the stub forest) and saw a Cooper's
Hawk scaling in the distance. A large brown Eagle also
appeared and soared directly over us within good given-range.
 After an early dinner we all went up the Megalloway taking
two boats and working slowly along near shore tapping all
the stubs that had Woodpecker holes or likely-looking places
for Ducks' nests. We saw only two Ducks a female Wood Duck
and a solitary Whistler, the former in the meadow opposite
Pulpit Rock.
[margin]Megalloway River[/margin]
[marign]Wood D.
Whistler[/margin]
 Tree Swallows were nesting everywhere where there were many
stubs. They evidently spread over this whole region unlike
the Bronzed Grackles which evidently congregate in colonies
kind of which we saw now up the river to-day.
  The Song Sparrow appears to us be almost as widely distributed
as the Tree Swallows but it s not found far back in the
forest but clings to the shores of the Lake & to the
river banks. We heard them singing in several places along
the Megalloway as far up as Pulpit Rock.
[margin]Song
Sparrows[/margin]
 In the flooded meadow opposite this rock were several
floating islands covered with bushes - admirable places for
birds of several kinds to nest but apparently quite tenantless.
[margin]Floating
islands[/margin]
  We found a nest of a Hairy Woodpecker in this meadow
containing young which, judging by the loudness of the clamor
that they made when the parent (always the [male]) feed them 
must have been at least a week old. This Woodpecker is
evidently one of the earliest birds to nest in this region.
[margin]Nest of
Hairy W.
with young[/margin]
  The woods along the Megalloway were alive with small
birds in many places and besides Bay-breasted Warblers,
Blackburnian Warblers & Parulas I was glad to hear
[margin]Warblers
along river[/margin]