Lake Umbagog.
1909.
June 9 [June 9, 1909]
(No 2)
  Soon after we had moved the house boat this morning
I saw six Grackles coming across the flooded meadows from
the boat house to our new anchorage, a distance of about
300 yards. They alighted all together on a boom that
closes one of the channels at the mouth of our present cove
and remained there for ten minutes or more watching
us intently, evidently in the hope of getting more of
our surplus bread & crackers. But none had been thrown 
out and after awhile our sable visitors flew back to
their island. (Eight Grackles visited our cove on morning May 10 when
I fed them on cracker fragments on the boom.)
Bronzed
Grackles.
  I have seen only one Night Hawk here this spring.
Jim Mc. Leod says they have been getting scarcer &
scarcer of later years and that they have now
practically deserted the entire region about Umbagog.
He says that a Whippoorwill used to sing about the
house on the [?] Stone farm a dozen years or so ago.
Night Hawks
have deserted
Umbagog
Whippoorwill