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Lake Umbagog.
1897
June 5
  Cloudy with a cool but light S.E. wind and occasional
showers of fine rain.
  Watrous & Gilbert went up the Megalloway this
morning finding a Swamp Sparrow's nest with five eggs
and two Tree Swallows, one with five, the other with six
eggs, all three nests being in the flooded meadow
opposite Pulpit Rock, the Swamp Sparrows on one
of the small floating islands near the head of this meadow.
[margin]Nest of
Swamp Sp.
Nest of 
Tree Swallow.[/margin]
  In the afternoon they visited two nests of the
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker which they had previously
found in Black Island Cove. One contained young,
the other five eggs far advanced in incubation. Watrous
unfortunately broke these eggs but he brought in the
nest a remarkably[sic] one drilled in a dry ash stub. The
entrance hole is evidently an old one for it is gray
& weathered nut the interior has been at least freshly
chiseled off on every side & perhaps wholly excavated this
season. It is not at all uncommon for Sphyrapicus
to make use of an old hole in this way.
[margin]Sapsuckers'
Nests[/margin]
  In the evening we all visited a nest of this species at
the western extremity of Leonard's Pond. It was in a
dead, upright prong of a living white maple about 30 ft
above the water - altogether a typical situation. It
contained four fresh eggs.
  In the afternoon Watrous found a Hairy Woodpecker's
nest in a small maple at the mouth of B. Brook Cove.
It had four eggs which were on the very point of hatching
& which he did not take.
[margin]Nest of
Hairy W.
with 4 eggs[/margin]
  A Whistler followed by 7 or 8 young about as large as
Robins came through Leonard's Pond this forenoon swimming close
along the shore.
[margin]Whistler
with
young[/margin]