Lake Umbagog.
1907
August 9
(No 9)
  I have mentioned a wooden bridge that crossed the river
below the mill. The gently curving stretch of road just beyond
it had on its right a narrow belt of swampy woods and a little
red school house (then the only building); on its left a knoll
ridge covered with young spruces and balsams from six to ten
feet in height and densely crowded in places. They were
christened "the Savins" by Mr. Maynard I think. He, with all
the other ornithologists of the earlier days found the place a rich
collecting ground and many rare birds and choice sets of eggs
were taken there between 1871 and 1880. The vigorous young evergreens
attracted numbers of Warblers at any season and in early spring
often swarmed with them. On one occasion I shot eleven Cape
May Warblers there in a single morning. Many of the birds
had their homes in the heavy forest through which the
Cambridge River flowed visiting the more open ridge only occasionally perhaps to seek some particular kind of
food or to bask in the sunshine. But this number and variety
of those which nested among the "Savins" was by no means small.
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