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Lake Umbagog
Pine Point.
1898.
August 31
  Early morning clear and calm with fleecy masses
of clouds running swiftly across the sky foretelling the 
strong north-west wind which started at 8 a. m.
and blew all through the remainder of the day.
[margin]Migration[margin]
  During the whole of the early part of last night
and afterwards, whenever I was awoken, I heard
Warblers and either Grosbcalls or Swainson's Thrushes calling almost
incessantly. The flight must have been practically
continuous and of unusual magnitude. When I
awoke at gray dawn this morning the calls were still
coming from every direction. At 5.30 A. M. when
I went down to the river for my bath I found
the woods literally swarming with Warblers. They
kept in the tops of the tallest trees and near any
restless & nervous chirping incessantly and taking long
flights across the river & over the woods. At 6 A. M.
they began rising from every part of the woods on
both sides of the cove, mounting to a height of 300
or 400 feet and then flying off in various directions
in small parties. Sometimes we would chase another,
in play apparently, but most of them found to be
impelled by some lessons if ill - defined purpose.
The majority soon returned and shot down into the tree
tops on the point only to walk another general
start a few minutes later, reporting this many times.
  There were so many in the air at once that it was
impossible to keep track of them all and I am by
no means sure that a good many did not follow the
example of two birds (D. coronata, I think) which starting
with the first flight from the Point and keeping