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Lake Umbagog.
1897
Sept. 19
  Early morning clear & calm with every promise
of a fine day but before ten o'clock the sky
became overcast, and by noon a chill wind
ran from the S.E. and the afternoon was gloomy
and depressing enough with a dash or two of rain
just before dark.
  I spent the day about camp which was visited 
early in the forenoon by a Parus hudsonicus and a
Hermit Thrush besides four Blue Jays & Crows. The
Warblers are about all gone and there are few Chickadees
& still fewer Canada Nuthatches this year.
[margin]Pine Point[/margin]
[margin]Parus hudson.[hudsonius]
Blue Jays
Chickadees
Nuthatches[/margin]
  The Spelmans & Purdie went up to the Megalloway with
Jim. They found a flock of nine Black Ducks accompanied 
by three Wood Ducks in Battle Brook Pond & S. [Spelman] shot
one of the former. They saw a Pileated Woodpecker &
a Canada Jay.
[margin]Megalloway River[/margin]
[margin]Black Ducks
&
Wood " [Ducks]
Pileated W. [Woodpecker]
Canada Jay[/margin]
" [Sept.] 20
  Cloudy with occasional light showers in the forenoon
and a heavy downpour the whole afternoon. I spent
the morning with the men working on the reefing
tackle of the canoes. While trying one of them just
outside our cove I heard a Golden Plover whistling
& saw either a Tern or a Bonaparte's Gull flying 
over Moose Point.
[margin]Golden Plover
Tern (?)[/margin]