Lake Umbagog.
1909
June 3 [June 3, 1909]
  Cloudless with high north-west wind which died away
in the late afternoon. Warm at midday (70 [degrees]), cool at morning
and evening.
  Leaving Lakeside shortly before sunset I started
slowly along the road heading eastward as far as the deep
hollow. It was a perfect evening without a cloud in the sky,
the air calm and deliciously cool and ringing with the 
songs of Hermit Thrushes and Peabody birds besides those of
several species of Warblers. I heard Vireos far and near along
the Lake shores and a Swainson's Thrush in some pasture
spruces. Also Flycatchers singing and calling, a Night Hawk
peeping. Purple Finches heard in a few places. I listened in
vain for the music of the Winter Wren which I had hoped
to hear by the brook where there was one two years ago.
Evening
walk along
Errol road
  The roadsides were everywhere gay with spring flowers
not less attractive, if somewhat less showy, than those found
here in late summer & early autumn. Most abundant as well
as pleasing were those of the purple trillium, of the water robin,
of the twisted stalk, of Oakesia, of the wild strawberry, of
violets both purple & white. The yellow bells of Clintonia were
almost but not quite ready to unfold. The heads of ferns
were rising everywhere in serried ranks and some of the fronds
had already opened. There were several species of flowering
shrubs that contributed more of beauty to the scenery than did
any of the more lowly herbaceous plants. Of those shrubs the
northern shad bush was the most abundant and conspicuous,
growing abundantly along the roadsides and wood edges. Some
specimens were low and spreading others spire or dome topped
trees 30 or 35 feet in height. All were densely covered with
snowy blossoms contrasting with the brown-[?] young foliage.
 Spring
flowers,
ferns etc.