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Lake Umbagog
Pine Point.
1898.
September 2
  Last night was cloudy and warm with a light rain. There
was a thin fog ay daybreak. The forenoon was cloudy, sultry
and dead calm. Heavy thunder showers from 7 P.M. to midnight.
  I heard a few warblers, Swainson's Thrush and Rose breasted
Grosbeaks* migrating at intervals through the night. At daybreak
a Bay-breasted Warbler sang a dozen times or more. He was
in fairly good voice and must have been an old bird.
Later a solitary Vireo and one or two Red-eyes sang in feeble,
broken tones.
[margin]* Cf. Journal for September 20[/margin]
[margin]Migration[/margin]
  About fifty Warblers spent  the forenoon on the Point keeping
lower down that usual and feeding by among the birches
and alders along the shore. I looked them over very
carefully and found among them a young (?) male Helminthophila
celata and a female Dendroica tigrina, both in full autumn
plumage. There were also two Canada warblers, one Blackburnian,
a number of Nashvilles, Black and yellows, Black-throated Greens,
Black-throated Blues, Yellow rumps and a Rose- breasted
Grosbeak.
[margin]Big mixed flock[/margin]
[margin]Hel. celata 
D. tigrina[/margin]
  One of the Yellow-rumps, a female in worn breeding plumage, was
feeding a brood of young which were still in first plumage.
[margin]D. coronata
feeding
young.[/margin]
  An unusually tame Loon, a young bird in gray dress,
fishes off the Point and at the mouth of the boat cove
nearly every day, often working close in shore.
  Rabbits appear to be scarce on the Point this year
and there are not as many Red Squirrels a usual.
Chipmunks are in the usual numbers. We have tamed
at least four which will eat or rather take corn
from our hounds carrying it off to their store houses.
We have seen no Flying Squirrels as yet. Porcupines 
visit our door yard every few nights. 
<margin> Rabbits  Red Squirrels Chipmunks Porcupines </margin>


