Lake Umbagog.
1909.
June 6 [June 6, 1909]
  Forenoon cloudy, afternoon brilliantly clear. Very cool with light winds.
  Spent afternoon up Cambridge River going as far as the Forks.
For this entire distance of about 5 miles the woods and thickets
were literally alive with very evenly distributed and apparently settled
for the summer. At least I noted no species which do not breed here & saw
no mixed flocks. It brought back the good old times to see or hear so many
of the species formerly abundant all about the Lake but now fast disappearing 
there. From the Mill to the Forks and back again there was not a single
reach where I did not hear Warblers, Nuthatches, Flycatchers etc. by the dozens
or perhaps even scores. It was like passing through an immense, well stocked
aviary. Redstarts, Blackburnian Warblers, Black & Yellow Warblers, Usnea Warblers,
Yellow Rumps, White-throated Sparrows, Vireos, Water Thrushes, Yellow-billed
Flycatchers and Canada Nuthatches were the most numerously represented species.
I heard one Cape May Warbler (a typical singer) one Mourning Warbler and
one Bay breast, all three near an opening in cat spruce & balsam timber just
below the Forks, no less than four Great Crested Flycatchers scathed at wide
intervals all the way from the Mill to the Forks, two Winter Wrens about
half a mile apart, both singing divinely, 2 Alder Flycatchers & a Pileated 
Woodpecker at the Forks, an Arctic Three-toed Woodpecker near where I once
found a nest of this species. Purple Finches singing in two or three places.
Of larger birds I saw an Osprey, a Great Blue Heron, a Broad winged
Hawk and two female Whistlers. One of the last named birds allowed us
to approach her within 20 yards as she swam on ahead up stream.
We saw five or six Muskrats & heard two or three Red Squirrels.
Deer tracks were not numerous anywhere. Save for some recent
cutting of the alders along its banks by river drivers the Cambridge
has been left unused since I last saw it. There is much more
block growth there now than anywhere about the south end of the
Lake. Seldom if we have I found the little stream more beautiful than
it was to-day. The foliage is more backward there than was the Lake
shores & few trees are in full leaf as yet.
Trip up
Cambridge River
to Forks