Lake Umbagog.
1903
June 12
  Cloudy with a gale of wind from the S.E. and torrents
of rain, beating down the tenderer vegetation and filling the
long depleted streams to overflowing.
  Before the rain began in earnest this morning I paddled
across the flooded meadows to Upton in the old gray
canoe. Gilbert joined me at Jim Bernier's place where
we spent the day overhauling my camping outfit which
I have decided to break up removing some of the things
to Concord and selling the remainder, if possible.
Across the Lake to Upton
  On my way across the meadows I saw a few Red-Wings
and Stub Swallows and a number of Bronzed Grackles.
The usual wood birds in about the usual numbers
were singing along the borders of the meadows. I heard
only two or three Blackburnian Warblers, however, and but
one Olive-sided Flycatcher. Woodpeckers of all kinds were
also apparently either scarce or wanting.
Birds at mouth of Cambridge River
  The white spruces near the Mill, between the road and
Cambridge River, were only six to eight feet high when I made
my first visit to Upton in 1872. They are now forty or fifty
feet in height and a foot or more in diameter in the base.
In them a great number and variety of small birds were
singing and calling all day long in spite of the furious
storm. Purple Finches, Black & Yellow Warblers & Kinglets seemed
to be among the commonest species.
White Spruces near the Mill (ie
the "Savin")
Birds in them
  Early in the afternoon a female Whistler crossing the
land from the Cambridge River to the Lake passed just
over the spruces and very near Jim's shop.
  As evening approached the storm increased. It would
have been difficult to cross the Lake in my canoe &
impossible to land from her at Lakeside. Gilbert & I were
therefore only too glad to accept Alva Coolidge's invitation to spend the night at his house.