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Lake Umbagog.
Outlet and Leonard's Pond
1897.
June 3
  Cloudy with heavy rain through the forenoon and 
showers in the afternoon.
  I spent the morning on the boat. Soon after
dinner we all went together to the Pileated Woodpecker's 
nest opposite the mouth of the Megalloway. I begin
to fear that it has been deserted for no bird was
in the hole when we reached it and none came
near it during the two or three hours that we spent
within sight of the stub. I have already noted that
only the male was seen during our visit on May 28th.
and that he then spent a long time calling for 
his mate. Possibly something has happened to her.
[margin]My third
visit to
nest of 
Pileated
Woodpecker[/margin]
  We found and took a tree swallow's nest with four
fresh eggs and attempted to take a Downy Woodpecker's
but the rope which we attached to the stub did
not prevent it from toppling over at the last and
all of the five eggs were broken. The nest-cavity is
an unusually symmetrical & neat one.
[margin]Nest of
Tree Swallow[/margin]
  Two Hooded Mergansers, both females, alighted in 
the water within 100 yds. [yards]. of us and sat there
motionless for several minutes with their crests partly
expanded. One of them flew back & forth by us a
number of times before & after this. I think these
must have been from a nest somewhere near.
[margin]Hooded
Merganser[/margin]