190
Lake Umbagog.
Pine Point.
1898
August 23
  Cloudy and warm with light south-east wind and 
occasional showers.
  We took the steamer up the Lake this morning
reaching Pine Point at about nine o'clock. There were
few birds - two or three Ospreys, one Eagle, a Loon,
and a Northern Phalarope being the most interesting ones
seen during this time.
  The Phalarope was sitting on the water off BlockIsland.
It flew as the steamer approached and wandered off
over the Lake with the usual erratic flight.
[margin]Northern
Phalarope[/margin]
  Spent the remainder of the day putting things in
order at the camp and working on the canoes. There
were a great many Warblers & other small birds in
the woods on the point but I had no opportunity 
to investigate them closely. Heard a Red-eye singing
feebly and a Log cock "shouting". Several Eagles & Ospreys
flying about and a Loon laughing in the distance.
Once a flock of White-winged Crossbills flew overhead,
chattering. There was also a Spotted Sandpiper and
two Kingfishers flying about the cove.
[margin]White-winged
Crossbills[/margin]
  The lake is very high - almost at spring pitch, inland,
the marshes on the Outlet being completely submerged. This
argues ill for waders but Will Sargeant tells me that
he saw a number of Golden Plover, Yellowlegs & Grass birds
a week or so ago before the water (sent down by raising
the gates at Middle Dam) covered the feeding grounds.
[margin]Lake high[/margin]
[margin]Golden Plover
Yellowlegs
Pectorals[/margin]
  Both last night and this I heard Warblers & Wilson's 
Thrushes migrating but the flight was evidently not nearly
so heavy or continuous as that noted at Bethel on this
night of the 21st
[margin]Migration[/margin]





