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Lake Umbagog.
Great Island.
1897.
June 12
  The morning began rainy as usual and showers fell at
frequent intervals during the forenoon. The clouds showed signs
of breaking soon after dinner but a strong E. wind sprang up
and a thunder shower ended the afternoon with a perfect
flood of rain followed by a superb sunset.
  Watrous and Gilbert spent the forenoon hunting for nests
on the Staples shore finding several Warblers' nests in trees that
they did not attempt to climb and one Black-throated Blue
Warbler's in yew, finished but empty.
[margin]Nest of
D. caerulescens[/margin]
  I took a short paddle along the Staples shore where
I heard two Cape May Warblers singing and saw a [female] Whistler
attempt to enter a hole 60 ft. up in a dead elm. She
failed & then flew off towards the Sweat Cove rising just
above the trees & crossing over the wooded neck of land
a thing I have never seen a Whistler do before.
[margin]Cape May W.
Nest ? of
Whistler [/margin]
  Immediately after dinner we began sculling the house boat
through the channel between Great Island & the Tidswell place
& on reaching the open stretch of Lake below hoisted
sail and beat down to Birch Point when the shower
struck us & we cast anchor reaching our moorings off
Lakeside by more sculling in the early evening.
[margin]We sail the
House Boat
from Great
Island to 
Lakeside[/margin]
  Watrous and Gilbert spent most of the afternoon on the
southern extremity of Great Island where the former found
a nest of the Bay-breasted Warbler with 5 fresh eggs &
one of the Black & Yellow Warbler with one egg. He sent
Gilbert after the house boat to let me know of this &
I sailed back in the canoe, landed, & examined both
nests in situ making a perfectly certain identification
of the [female] Bay-breast just after Watrous started her
[margin] Nests of
Bay breast &
Magnolia W. [/margin] 