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Lake Umbagog
1898.
August 25
  Heavy rain with S.E. wind through the forenoon.
Afternoon clear. A succession of thunder showers at
evening well into the night.
[margin]Pine Point[/margin]
  Spent most of the day at camp working on
the canoes whenever the rain held up. In the 
afternoon Will Stone, George Farnsworth, & I sailed across
the Lake to my old camping ground. Saw four 
Herring Gulls, all old birds, floating together on the
water near the Outlet. During the rain shower in
the forenoon a Black-bellied Plover was flying about
over the Lake whistling.
[margin]Will Stone
Geo. B. Farnsworth[/margin]
[margin]Herring Gulls[/margin]
[margin]Beetle-head[/margin]
" [August] 26
  A superb day, cool, with fresh but very steady west
wind.
  We all went out sailing in the forenoon and
again in the afternoon, visiting the submerged Outlet
marshes on both occasions and in the afternoon
taking a stretch up the Lake as far as Whale-back
Cove. Saw a [female] Marsh Hawk, a Great Blue Heron,
a Wilson's Tern, two Least Sandpipers (flying over the Lake)
several Ospreys, four Eave Swallows, a Swift, and 
a flock of eight Sheldrakes.
[margin]Outlet.
Sailing on
Lake[/margin]
[margin]Marsh Hawk
Wil. Tern
Least S.
Ospreys[/margin] 
  There were a few Warblers in the woods on the
point but the wind blew so hard that I could
not get a good view of them among the tossing
foliage. Heard White-winged Crossbills chattering
in the air overhead. At sunrise a Canadian 
Warbler sang a few times & later a Red-eye warbled
a little in broken tones. No migrants either last night or this.
[margin]Warblers[/margin]
[margin]White wing
Crossbills
Birds in 
song.[/margin]