1909
June 2 [June 2, 1909]
Bethel to Lakeside
  Partly cloudy. Warm with light S. W. wind. Cold (almost frosty)
in the early morning and again at evening.
  Leaving Bethel at 9.30 A.M. I reached Lakeside at 4.30 P.M.
driving through in a light buggy drawn by a pair of quiet horses.
We stopped often by the wayside to look for wild flowers and
to listen to the birds with which the woods and thickets and
even the open fields,were fairly alive in many places.
Evidently there was a rather heavy north-bound migration
still under way, probably representing the rear guard of the last
spring flight especially of Warblers which were particularly
numerous. Of these I noted no species which do not breed in
the region but the number of individuals was far in excess
of that in summer. In North Bethel I saw by the roadside
one bird which was unquestionably going much further north
viz a beautiful White-crowned Sparrow. Bay-breasted Warblers
were noted only in Grafton Notch where I heard no less than
four males singing. As usual I looked and listened for
Prairie Horned Larks in the open, sandy fields of Newry &
Grafton but wholly without success.
Heavy bird
flight still
under way
  There was a decided change in the vegetation after we 
had fairly entered the Notch where it was fully ten days
behind that at Bethel, few of the forest trees showing more
than a tinge of green while many of them were perfectly
leafless. I expected to find them more advanced again as
we descended the hill from Upton village to Lakeside but
this was not the case for even about the shore of the lake
their leaves were only just beginning to unfold. The ice went
out of this lake on May 14 and I am told there is still
snow in evergreen woods near its shore. We saw two deep drifts
by the road in Grafton a little above the Notch
Vegetation
Lake opened
May 14
Snow drifts
in Grafton