107
Lake Umbagog
Megalloway River
1897
June 2
(No 6)
the pond but strange to say no other species of
the family was down here although Swifts never numerous.
[margin]Bottle Brook Pond.
Swifts.[/margin]
  Happening to direct my field glasses towards the summit
of Mt. Dustin, several miles away, I discovered soaring
above it a large dark-colored Eagle which two 
smaller birds, apparently crows, were mobbing. I
could not help suspecting that it was a Golden Eagle
but at such a distance it was impossible to get
an identification.
[margin]Golden
Eagle [/margin]
  In some fallen tree tops on one of the points several
Black-poll Warblers were hopping about only a few
feet above the ground. We afterwards heard &
saw others on Bear Brook.
[margin]Black-poll
Warbler[/margin]
  On a floating island in the pond a Swamp
 Sparrow was singing and Watrous on landing there
found several old nests as well as our new one
not quite finished.
[margin]Swamp Sp.
nests on 
floating
island [/margin]
  There were several pairs of Downy & Yellow-bellied
Woodpeckers about the shores of the pond and
we found one nest of the former species. The
entrance hole was the smallest I have ever known
a Downy to make. When we rapped on the stub
& the female bird thrust out her head it turned to
fill the opening completely and when, a moment later,
she essayed to follow it with her body she had to
struggle violently for two or three seconds before she could get out.
[margin]Woodpeckers [/margin]
[margin]Nest of
Downy N.[/margin]