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Lake Umbagog.
Pine Point.
1897
Sept. 10
(No 2)
Warblers, however, usually show themselves singly or
two or three together later in the day. I have
also seen several Black-polls. Yesterday a Robin,
several Pine Linnets and a Hairy Woodpecker paid
us brief visits. Blue Jays are singularly scarce this
year. Indeed I have noted only one thus far.
  Perhaps our most interesting camp visitor thus
far was a hen Partridge which [delete]yesterday[/delete] appeared
yesterday early in the forenoon. When I saw it first
it was standing erect and motionless not six feet from
the front of my tent! It presently started off down
the hillside and walking slowly disappeared among
the undergrowth & fallen logs towards the Lake shore.
Gilbert has heard a drummer twice beyond this knoll.
[margin]A Partridge
visits my
tent[/margin]
  A Red Squirrel with the terminal third of the
tail white is living on the crest of the
knoll near the big hemlocks. Will has seen him
there daily & I had a fair view of him yesterday
as he ran across the path.
  Great Blue Herons are much scarcer than usual.
I do not see more than two or three in any one day.
Probably the water is too high for them. It
is rising fast and the marshes are already
nearly submerged. The Crocker party started
for home yesterday feeling that there was no
longer any hope of further flights of Snipe &
other small waders settling here. They had their
best shooting about Sept. 1st when they bagged
seven Snipe besides other birds in one day.
[margin]Great Blue
Herons scarce[/margin]
[margin]Snipe[/margin]