Lake Umbagog.
1903.
June 14
(No 7)
  On my return from the trip up Cambridge River
I called on Alva Coolidge. He had just got back from
B. Pond with two Loon's eggs which he took this afternoon.
The nest, he tells me, was in a cove directly in front
of a big rock, not concealed in the slightest degree by
grass or bushes buts imply built up of mud and a
few sticks a few inches above the surface of the shallow
water by which it was surrounded. The bird passed out
directly under his boat in about 3 feet of water as
he entered the Cove.
Loon's egg taken at B. Pond
  Alva Coolidge tells me that he has seen at least
four different hen Spruce Partridges this spring along
the trail that leads from Upton to B. Pond. He has
searched long & carefully for their nests but without success.
It was on this trail that he & John Thayer found
the nest & 5 eggs that the latter gave me two  years
ago.
Spruce Grouse
  I sailed most of the way back to Lakeside this
evening before a light breeze. Swainson's Thrushes & Water Thrushes
were singing all along the shores of the flooded meadows.
I heard one Pileated Woodpecker calling in the woods
between the Lake House & the Stone Farm and saw
another fly from B. Point across to the Lakeside shore.
Red winged Blackbirds in small numbers & Bronzed Grackles
in somewhat larger numbers about the floating islands.
Very few Stub Swallows compared to the earlier times but
Tree Swallows