Lake Umbagog.
1903
June 15
(No 3)
  Save for the slight breaks caused by the camps which
have been erected on several of the points about the
upper part of the Lake the forests there have changed
but little since my last visit although the "black growth"
has almost wholly disappeared except near the
summits of the surrounding mountains. The lumbering,
during the past two winters, has been simply
merciless, as far as the spruces & balsams are concerned,
but the deciduous trees are numerous enough everywhere
to effectively conceal these ravages at least from the
eye of one passing up the middle of the Lake. It has
become filled with dangerous snags most of which are
balsam fir logs (or rather pulp sticks) of no great size
firmly implanted in the mud. As many of them 
are under water they render crossing somewhat hazardous
it is said.
Merciless cutting of spruces & balsams.
Snags in the Lake
  As we passed down the Androscoggin on our way
to Errol I saw just below the mouth of the Megalloway
a female Whistler accompanied by four ducklings about 1/4 grown,
a pair of Herring Gulls following the course of the river
just above the tops of the trees, and a Pileated Woodpecker
flying across the stream near Sweat Meadow. There
were also two Crows cawing in the woods near
the place last mentioned.
Whistlers Herring Gulls Pileated W.
Crows.
  During the time spent at Errol Dam I noted the following:-
Robin, 1 in full song; Nashville Warbler, 1 in full song; Chestnut-sided Warbler, 1 in full song;
Redstart, 1 in full song; Red-eyed Vireo, 1 in full song; Cedar bird, 2 in a flock; Eave Swallow,
large colony; Pine Linnet,1; Junco, 2 in full song; Song sparrow, 1 in full song; 
Red Crossbill, female adult and 1 juvenile (in striped first plumage); White-throated Sparrow, 1 in full song; Olive-sided Flycatcher, 1 in full song; Phoebe, 1 in full song, nest in dam shed;
Chimney Swift, 3 in a flock; Flicker, 1 in full song:- in all sixteen species.
Birds noted at Errol Dam