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Lake Umbagog.
1898.
September 8                      
  A brilliantly clear day with fresh W. to S. breeze. Early
morning cool, mid day warm (68[degrees]).
  Taking advantage of the unusually strong & steady breeze
we spent practically the entire day in the sailing canoe
beating about between Pine Point and the Outlet marshes
in the forenoon, in the afternoon going to Rapid River
and sailing both ways as well as up to the river to
the head of the island above the old pines.
[margin]Sailing
on the 
Lake.[/margin]
  The rain and wind made so much noise last night
hat I heard no sound of migrating birds & there
were very few Warblers on the Point this morning.
[margin]Sailing
on the
Lake.[/margin]                                           
  While off Pine Point this afternoon we saw a Northern
Phalarope starting it a number of times. It was very
restless continuously making short flights from place
to place, alighting frequently & bobbing on the waves
like a cork. Once I saw it fly straight upward
from the water & catch a flying insect, then alight
on the spot whence it started. It called quit, quit
ten or thirteen feet.
[margin]Northern
Phalarope[/margin]
  Saw two Eagles, a Red-tailed Hawk, a Broad winged 
Hawk, two Flickers (the first for this season) and a
Sheldrake, at Rapid River. On the Outlet marshes
started a Great Blue Heron and two Black Ducks
& saw a Marsh Hawk & two Eave Swallows circling about.
A [male] Picoides arcticus was humming at the trunk
dead balsam near the camp this evening just 
before sunset.
[margin]Eave Swallow
Picoides arc.[/margin]