221.
Lake Umbagog.
1897
Sept. 5
  Clear and warm, the forenoon dead calm, a fresh west
wind in the afternoon. Heavy fog in the early morning.
   At daybreak this morning a Winter Wren sang a dozen
times or more near the camp & later I heard a
Solitary and Red-eyed vireo and two Parula Warblers
all in full song & incidentally old birds. There did not 
seem to be many Warblers on the Point however, only a
few Yellow-rumps and Parulas in fact.
[margin]Winter Wren,
Solitary Vireo
Red-eye " [vireo]
& 2 Usnea
Warblers all 
in full song.[/margin]
  A large number of fine trout were caught a week or
ten days ago at the mouth of Sturtevant Brook and
Will and I went there this morning in the hope of
finding a few still lingering about the place. The 
rocky channel of the brook proved to be alive with
large Suckers among which we saw at least two trout
each of which would have weighed two pounds or
more but neither would rise to our flies.
[margin]Trout fishing
on lake at
mouth of 
Sturdevant [sic] [Sturtevant]
Brook.[/margin]
  In crossing the north arm of the Lake we kept a
sharp lookout for dead birds and picked up two
a White-throated Sparrow and an Oven-bird. Both
were floating belly down as is invariably the case
with small birds that get drowned in the Lake these
foggy autumnal mornings. They were both cold & stiff.
The plumage of the back & upper parts generally was
smooth & perfectly dry as if they had finished
without struggle. I have little doubt that a thorough
search of the whole Lake would have yielded a dozen
or more of such unfortunates: I still believe that they 
descended blindly through the fog & struck the water before seeing it.
[margin]Birds
drowned
in the 
Lake of
a still
foggy morning.[/margin]