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Lake Umbagog
Head of Great Island
1897
June 10
  Yet another gloomy and very stormy day with
strong N.E. wind. It rained heavily last night and 
through the forenoon and the early part of the afternoon
of to-day.
  At 8 A. M. we weighed anchor and made a
quick run down the Lake and through the Narrows
to Great Island where we shall spend the remainder
of the week. A few swallows were flying about close
over the water but nothing like so many as we
saw a week or two ago under similar conditions of
watching. Probably they are too busy now with their
eggs or young to visit the Lake freely. No doubt many
of those seen in May came long distances.
[margin]We sail the
House Boat
from
Molls' Rock
to
Great Island[/margin]
  Later in the afternoon the rain ceased and as the
breeze held fresh and steady I sailed across the bay
past Bear Island to Metalluc[sic] [Metallak] Island. A pair of
Great Crested Flycatchers were calling in the wafts
at the narrows & I heard two Wood Pewees
there and another on Bear Island.
[margin]Crested
Flycatchers[/margin]
  Watrous took a run on Great Island finding a
Black-throated Blue Warbler's nest with four fresh eggs &
a Hermit Thrush's with four large young.
[margin]Nest of
D. caerulescens
&
Hermit T.[/margin]
  Soon after sunset this evening a Herring Gull
came flying about our vessel attracted by some schools 
of small fish which were ruffling the otherwise glassy
surface of the Lake as if a light breeze had struck it.
The Gull would make straight for one of these spots
flying swiftly a yard or two above the surface. &
plumping down heavily &, as it seemed to us, most
[margin]Herring
Gull[/margin]