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Lake Umbagog 
[margin]Pine Point[/margin]
1898.
September 1
  Last night was clear still and warm (60Œ_ at 9 P.M.) with
a nearly full moon. Up to 9 A.M. to-day the sky was cloudless and
there was not a breath of wind. Later a S.E. wind arose and the
sky clouded over. There has been no fog these past two nights.
  Warblers and Swainson's Thrushes were migrating all last night
but I heard them at infrequent intervals and only in small
numbers. An immense flight must have reached here about daybreak,
however, for when I went down to the cove at 5.30 the
woods all over the Point were simply filled with little birds.
Indeed I do not think I have ever seen so many there before.
For an hour after this they were exceedingly nervous and
restless keeping high up in the trees, continually dashing hither 
and thither in small parties and every few minutes rising
above the woods and leaving the Point in large numbers. They
rose in spirals and to such a height that I could not 
follow them even with my glass. Sometimes practically all
would depart in the course of a few minutes but ten or
fifteen minutes later there would be as many on the Point as
before. As nearly as I could make out successive large flocks came
from the north, flitting from tree to tree through the woods, and
each flock on reaching the end of the Point mounted high in 
air and started on a more or less extended aerial journey
southward but it is possible that there was only one flock
and that it made a number of "false starts", returning to the
Point after each in such a manner as to elude my observation.
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Migration[/margin] 
  Be this as it may the movements ceased at about 7 A.M
after which, for two or three hours, the birds were much
less restless and occupied themselves almost wholly in
feeding. During this period they were quite as numerous
as at any time earlier in the morning. They were spread