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Lake Umbagog.
Curtis Meadows.
1897
Sept. 22
  Forenoon clear and calm; most of the afternoon overcast
with light S.E. to S.W. wind. Warmer than yesterday.
  To Curtis Meadow with Jim and Gilbert taking the
large boat and both cameras and exposing nearly three
dozen plates. The last ten pictures, however, were all
essentially the same - of a rich sunset framed between
three wooded points on the Androscoggin. Nearly all
my negatives afterwards came out well.
[margin]Photography[/margin]
  The only large birds seen on Curtis Meadows to-day
were a Black Duck, a Wood Duck, an Osprey, a
Pigeon Hawk & a Red-[delete]shouldered[/delete]tailed Hawk (an immature
bird seen in the same places yesterday). We lunched
again at the mouth of the brook. Heard a
Hudson's Bay Tit and saw a Black-backed Three-toed
Woodpecker in the cedar swamp. The Rusty Blackbird
was again working at the wreckage under the
old roots.
[margin]Black Duck
Wood Duck
Osprey
Pigeon Hawk
Red-tailed "
Picoides arc[/margin]
  Early in the afternoon witnessed a migration
of Blue Jays. They came from the woods on
the north side of the meadow and rising to a
height of from 100 to 200 feet passed out of sight
over a wooded ridge to the south. There was one
flock of forty-three, another of ten; the others
were scattered birds or parties of three to five or six.
Some of them turned back and plunged down
headlong into the woods from a considerable height
as I have seen them do at Pine Point.
[margin]Blue Jays
migrating
in numbers
this afternoon[/margin]