148
Lake Umbagog.
Spelman's Point.
1897.
June 14
(No 3)
  It was now so near noon that we all went to the
end of Spelman's point and building a smudge in the
stone fire-place in the middle of the little grassy
opening lunched there with the rain falling heavily all
the while and the black flies & mosquitoes attacking us
in force whenever our smoke got low.
[margin]Black flies
& 
Mosquitoes[/margin]
  The trees and shrubbery on this point were alive with
birds most of which I think were merely feeding there
as they were continually arriving from and departing to
places more or less far back in the forest. The variety
& number of species which we saw in the course of an hour
or less was something unusual for such a locality.
[margin]Great number
&
variety of
small birds[/margin]
  Unfortunately I made no full list but I recall a Robin, Swainson's Thrush,
Canada Nuthatch, Chickadees, Blackburnian, Bay-breasted, Black-
throated Blue, Parula, and Canadian Warblers, several Redstarts
and Red-eyed Vireos, a pair of Chipping Sparrows (the first
I have found in the forest this season), a pair of Juncos, 
a White-throated Sparrow, a Song Sparrow, a Pine Linnet
(pecking industriously at the terminal unfolding buds of some
young balsams), a Crow (the bird which has a nest in a
hemlock near the end of the point), a Blue Jay, two
Olive-sided Flycatchers, a pair of Great Crested Flycatchers. and
one representative each of the Hairy, Downy, Arctic Three toed,
and Yellow-bellied Woodpeckers; in all twenty four species
(with, no doubt, several others that I do not remember) seen
within an area of less than 1/8 of an acre!
[margin]Chipping
Sparrows in
the forest[/margin]
[margin]Crested Fly.
Picoides arc.[/margin]
  At 1 P.M. we started down the Lake rowing steadily,
without either stopping or landing, all the way to the
Staples place below the Narrows (where we started a Great
Blue Heron that was feeding just inside the rocky islands).
[margin]Staples Place[/margin]
[margin]Gr. Blue
Heron.[/margin]