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Lake Umbagog
Pine Point
1898
September 6 
  Still another clear, calm and very warm day.
  Although I heard a good many Warblers and Grosbeaks
migrating just before daybreak, as well as earlier in the
first night, there were only a few small birds on the
Point though the day. Parula Warblers and Red-eyed Vireos
were singing most of the forenoon and with about as 
much energy and persistence as if it had been June instead
of September. Apparently they were old birds. I also heard
a Kinglet and a Solitary Vireo sing a few times. I do
not think that I have ever before hear so much autumn 
singing as here, during the past week. It has been due, no
doubt, to the continued warm, still weather. Yesterday and
the day before Bullfrogs were tromping all around the Lake.
On the 3rd I heard one Leopard Frog and to-day a
Wood Frog. Hylas have been croaking incessantly, night 
and day. Mosquitoes have been very numerous and bothersome
the past two evenings.
[margin]Usnea Warblers 
singing freely[/margin]
[margin]Other birds singing[/margin]
  Along the shore of the Lake & rivers the maples are turning
slowly and some of them are already bright crimson but
in the woods only the sarsaparilla leaves have turned.
[margin]Autumn foliage[/margin]
  The weather was sultry and the sky was heavily clouded
this morning but as soon as it became dark - and it
became very dark indeed by 8 o'clock - Warblers and
Grosbeaks began flying in great numbers. Indeed up to
the time I went to bed (10 P.M.) they were calling
about incessantly in every direction; later it began
raining heavily and continued through the night. This [delete]is[/delete]
migrations of small birds have been unusually heavy and
continuous for the past week.
[margin]migration[/margin]
  Will Stone and I spent the greater part of the day photographing.