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Lake Umbagog.
Outlet Region.
1897
June 7
(No 2)
Leonard's Pond about a week ago. He pumped
the whole forenoon to-day. I got within about 100
yards of him when a channel of open water stopped
my further advance.
[margin]Curtis Meadow[/margin]
  I found a Swamp Sparrow's nest with three eggs
on this island built in short, dry grass about
6 inches above the ground. I also found the remains
of a Black Duck that a Fox had killed & eaten.
[margin]Nest of
Swamp Sp.[/margin]
[margin]Black Duck
killed by
a Fox[/margin]
  We saw three living Black Ducks flying about
& also, near the head of the pond, a [female] Hooded
Merganser. On the island I saw what looked like
a last year's nest of a Loon.
[margin]Hooded Mer.[/margin]
[margin]Old nest
of Loon (?)[/margin]
  Near the entrance to the pond (or meadow) a
Bicknell's Thrush was calling loudly. I mistook
its shrill peet for a Red-winged Blackbird's note at
first & wondered what a Red-wing could be doing
back in the woods among some dense young
spruces.
[margin]Bicknell's
Thrush.[/margin]
  Robins are more numerous along the Androscoggin Riv.
than elsewhere in this vicinity. I saw & heard at
least 5 or 6 this morning.
[margin]Robins[/margin]
  Yesterday at 3 P.M. Watrous visited the Whistler's nest with
11 eggs near the entrance to Leonard's Pond. Several of
the eggs were cracked. I sent him there again this
evening just after sunset. He found all but two of
the eggs hatched & the nest full of the pretty ducklings.
The old bird did not leave it until he was at the
foot of the tree & she returned & entered the hole before
he had moved 100 yds away. He did not count the young.
[margin]Leonard's Pond
Nest of
Whistler
The eggs
hatch[/margin]