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Lake Umbagog.
1898.
September 11
  Cloudless with strong N.W. wind. Very cool in the early
morning with frost in the low places.
[margin]Trip up
Cambridge 
River.[/margin]
  We spent the day up Cambridge River taking the
hunting boat and cameras and leaving guides and
guns behind. Starting at about 7 A.M., paddling very
slowly, often stopping or landing to take a picture
we reached B. Meadows at eleven o'clock and after going
up them nearly to the middle of the open ground
we returned to the Forks for lunch and a long
rest and talk afterwards, lying on the sand bar, with 
the little river eddying past at our feet and the
shaggy, natural meadow stretching off into dim
distance towards the east. Then we started back
reaching the Lake just before sunset.
  On the way up the river we saw a Solitary Sandpiper,
a Great Blue Heron, a Bittern, two Kingfishers, and
a number of small birds chiefly Yellow-rumped Warblers.
Winter Wrens were very numerous and there were a
few Maryland Yellow-throats along the river banks[.]
A flock of five Red Crossbills flew over us and Cedar Birds
were heard lisping several times. Two Flickers were
"shouting" almost as freely & frequently as if it were
May instead of September & both were in the depths of
the woods far up from the settlements. These were
actually the only Woodpeckers noted.
[margin]Red Crossbills
Flickers
"shouting"
freely.[/margin]
  On the way down we started a Wood Duck from
beneath some overhanging alders.
  Jim Mc. Leod & another "native" overtook us. They had
been above the Sluice and had with them an
adult [male] Broad-winged Hawk which they had