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Lake Umbagog.
Leonard's Pond
1897
June 1
  Cloudy with a strong and, for the season, a bitterly
cold wind from the N. to N.W.
  Watrous and Gilbert went up the Magalloway this
morning finding a Kingfisher's nest (from which they
started the bird) in the river bank near Horse Shoe Bend.
I spent the entire day on the boat writing etc.
It was disagreeably cold outside even at noon and
the woods were almost silent although every now
and then a Water Thrush's song would be heard
above the rushing of the wind & the creaking of our
cordage.
  Herring Gulls visit us here almost as regularly as
they did at our last anchorage behind Great Island.
I never tire of watching and admiring their graceful
flight as they beat back and forth around the
shores of the pond their snowy plumage contrasting
beautifully with the sombre green of the background
of spruces and hemlocks.
  About half-an-hour before sunset this evening I found
three of these Gulls perching in a large dead pine at
the eastern end of the island. Two fully mature birds, no
doubt a pair, were standing side by side almost touching
one another, the third, in immature plumage, was lower
down on another branch. I paddled almost under them
before they would take wing. It was cloudy & dark
at the time & I believe they had gone to roost for the
night.
[margin]Herring
Gulls[/margin]
  A Robin, Song Sparrow, Red-winged Blackbird, two
Black & Yellow Warblers, and four Water Thrushes were the
only birds that I heard singing this morning. The Swainson's
Thrushes mainly call pip and qt'u-e-e.
[margin]Birds heard
at evening[/margin]