207
Lake Umbagog.
Pine Point
1898.
September 3                           
  A beautiful day, clear with fresh W. winds which died 
wholly away an hour before sunset. Evening still clear & very warm.
  I heard no birds migrating last night and there
were practically none on the point this morning except
the local Titmice. Kinglets, etc. But a flight of unusual
magnitude began this evening as soon as it became
fairly dark and lasted until I went to bed at 9 P.M.
During this period Warblers and Thrushes were calling
incessantly in the star-lit sky. I do not think that
I have ever heard so many Thrushes before in any one
clearing. Perhaps some of them were Rose-breasted Grosbeaks
for I am not sure that I can always tell the night call
of the latter from that of Swainson's Thrush. All the
small birds heard to-night seemed to be flying lower
than usual and very many of them passed, apparently,
just over the tops of the trees on the Point.
[margin]Migration[/margin]
  Will Stone and I spent the day on the Megalloway
going in two of the sailing canoes and paddling up
river as far as Bear Brook. We lunched at Pulpit Rock
\and visited the big boulders on the hillside above.
We saw very few birds - a pair of Whistlers, two Kingbirds
and two Cedar birds at Bear Brook pond, a flock
of White-winged Crossbills at Pulpit Rock, a Solitary
Vireo, several Swamp Sparrows & a Black & White Creeper.
Sailed the whole of the way back reaching camp
at about 4 P.M.
[margin]Megalloway
River.[/margin]
[margin]Kingbirds[/margin]
[margin]White wing
Crossbills.[/margin]
