194
Lake Umbagog.
Pine Point.
1898.
August 28                    
  Clear with light S. to S.E. breezes alternating with periods
of dead calm. A dense fog in the early morning.
  Awaking at daybreak I heard either Rose-breasted Grosbeaks or Swainson's Thrushes
calling out over the Lake. There seemed to be a number
of them and they were evidently wandering about,
bewildered, by the fog for the sound of their voices
approached and receded many times and continued
altogether at least ten minutes. Later in the morning
Will Sargent, while rowing to B. Brooke Point, saw two
dead birds floating on the water but he did not
pick up either of them.
 [margin]Migration[/margin]
  There was a large mixed flock of small birds
on the Point this morning and I spent sometime trying
to identify them but they kept in the tops of the
tallest trees and I made out only a very few among
which were a Bay-breasted Warbler, a Blackburnian and
two Usnea Warblers. I heard one of the last - named                              
singing feebly. A Canadian Warbler and a Black-throated
Green were in nearly full song earlier in the morning.
Red-eyed Vireos sang at intervals during the whole
day and one of them was in good voice. A Solitary 
Vireo was singing loudly on the Magalloway early in
the forenoon.            
[margin]Mixed
flock on
Pine Point.[/margin]
[margin]Bay breas W.[/margin]
[margin]Birds in
song[/margin]
  At 8 A.M. we all started across the Lake
each in a sailing canoe. We entered Leonard's Pond
at the eastern end, passed around the island
by the northern channel, thence down the Andoscoggin
to the Magalloway and back to camp by way 
of Moll's Carry and across the Outlet marshes
now five or six feet under water.
[margin]Leonard's P.
& Outlet
marshes[/margin]