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Lake Umbagog.
1897
Sept. 11
(No 2)
  Just after we had finished dinner by far the
largest mixed flock that I have seen this season
appeared in the birch grove in front of the camp.
It contained at least thirty birds among which I
identified two Blackburnians, two Bay-breasted, several
Black-bellied and a Magnolia Warbler, a Black & White
creeper, several Yellow-rumps and a number of Parula
Warblers. This flock came from the direction of Glaspy
Cove which is about one mile from my camp, and
from the close similarity in its make up to those of
the flock seen by Purdie this forenoon I believe
that it was actually the same. The birds moved
past our camp very quickly following the shore
towards the north-west end of the point.
[margin]Pine Point[/margin]
[margin]Large mixed
flock of
Warblers
visits the
Camp.[/margin]
  At evening Will rowed me over to the Outlet marshes.
After looking about a bit and trying to find a
place where Ducks had been feeding we finally stopped
near where we were stationed last evening and pushing
the boat into a bed of grass (which was more than
half submerged) lighted our pipes and waited. It was
not long before Black Ducks began to arrive and
alight on the flooded marshes. Most of them came
singly but one flock of a dozen or more settled
somewhere behind us. None came near us at first
but we could see or hear them in every direction.
At times the whole marsh rang with the quacking
of the ducks and the hoarse cracked voices of the
drakes. Nevertheless there were not very many in 
all - probably no more than twenty or twenty-five. The
single ones called the loudest and oftenest but in  
[margin]* Outlet Marshes
at evening[/margin]
[margin]Black
Ducks[/margin]