236
Upper Megalloway River, Maine.
1898.
September 18
  Early morning densely foggy; forenoon cloudy with heavy
rain; afternoon clearing with a bright sunset.
  Left Flint's at 9 A.M. and drove across the carry
(2 1/2 miles) to the head of Aziscohos Falls. The steamer
came at 10.30 and at 11 we started up river in a pouring
rain. The curtains were all lowered and we saw but little
of the scenery. The Captain showed us where a large bull
Moose had been seen a few days before standing on a 
strip of marsh at the mouth of a brook.
[margin]From Flint's
to the 
Meadow Camp[/margin]
  The boat runs only 16 miles to the Meadow Camp
which we reached at 1 P.M. This camp belongs to the
Parmachenee Club but outsiders are entertained when
there is room for them and we spent the
remainder of the day and the following night there.
Late in the afternoon we rowed up river about two
miles, seeing a Bittern, several Kingfishers, a Robin &
a number of Swamp Sparrows. The wing of a young Night Heron
freshly cut off, lay on the ground at the landing. One
of the guides said that it had belonged to a "Hawk"
and that the bird had been shot on the river near by.
Hudsonian Chickadees & Yellow rumps were heard near the
camp and a Winter Wren & Song Sparrows seen there. At
evening a Peabody bird & Swamp Sparrows sang freely a few times.
[margin]Night
Heron[/margin]
[margin]Small
birds[/margin]
  Sap suckers (Sphyrapicus varius) had dug four wells in the
trunk of a rather large Yellow birch that stands in front
of the camp and at least two birds (both young) hung
about the place at all hours of the day resorting frequently
to the sap well to drink. Twice they met there 
and on each occasion a surprisingly prolonged and bitter
[margin]Sapsuckers
fighting[/margin]