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Lake Umbagog.
1897
Sept. 3
  A clear fine day but cold for the season with high
north-west wind.
[margin]Lakeside[/margin]
  Spent the morning in the hotel. After dinner drove
around to the Lake House to see a new canoe that Jim
has made for me in the past summer. Savanna Sparrows,
Grass Finches & Chippies flying up along the roadsides.
A [female] Maryland Yellow-throat in a thicket of bush
maples. An Osprey soaring over the Lake.
[Sept.] 4
  Cloudy with light showers in the late afternoon. The
Lake calm most of the day.
[margin]Pine Point[/margin]
  Up the Lake this morning with Will Sargent, Charley
Tidswell, and Gilbert and all our camp outfit
on the house-boat which with our numerous boats
we took in tow of the steamer there being no
signs of a favorable wind.
  Reached the camp at 10.30 and spent the
remainder of the day putting things in order.
Only a few small birds on the Point among them
a Solitary & Red-eyed Vireo, a Three-toed Woodpecker
(arcticus, I think, but I only heard its chuck)
and several Yellow rump Warblers. The evening was
still & damp with no Owls hooting & no sounds of
small birds migrating.
[margin]Picoides[/margin]
  The woods still wear their summer lining of
uniform green but one small maple in front of
the camp is beginning to crimson & the sarsparilla
leaves are mottled with yellow.
[margin]Autumn
colors[/margin]