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Lake Umbagog.
Pine Point.
1897
Sept. 8
  A clear, warm day nearly dead calm from morning
to night.
  I did not go out at all to-day and hence have
little to record saw that a Parus hudsonius visited
the camp this forenoon and an Oven bird rose
high over the woods on Spelmen's Point and gave
the full flight song a little before sunset, the first
time, I think, that I have ever heard it as late
as September.
  Last night the moon was nearly full & rose early
but I heard no Owls until just as I was going
to bed (at 0.30) when a Barred Owl hooted a
few times in the direction of Spelmen's Point. At
day break this morning I heard a Great-horned
Owl hoot twice on the opposite side of the Lake.
[margin]Barred Owl
Great H. " [Owl][/margin]
Sept. 9
  Clear & very warm for the season the thermometer rising
to 80 [degrees]. Forenoon calm, a fresh W. to N.W. wind in P.M.
  This day, alas, I spent about camp going out on
the Lake sailing with Purdie, however, for an hour in
the afternoon. Two Redstarts and a Parula Warbler
were in full song for nearly an hour this morning.
 To Moose Point at evening. Saw only a Duck - a 
Hooded Merganser which crossed the marsh high up - but
heard Black Ducks quacking in the direction of the Outlet.
Two Great Blue Herons heard but no Snipe or other small waders.
Mosquitos very numerous & troublesome.
[margin]Moose Pt.
Hooded Mer.
Black Ducks
Herons
Mosquitos[/margin]