1909.
June 10 [June 10, 1909]
Lake Umbagog.
  Forenoon sunny and warm with light S.W. wind. Afternoon
cloudy with fresh S.E. wind.
  Starting at 8 and getting back at 9 A.M. I walked to the
Stone farm along the old familiar cart path. It has changed
greatly since the earlier years when we used to frequent it in
search of birds and their nests. What was once a perfectly open
sheep pasture beyond the bog at the rear of the Lake House
is now for the most part grown up thickly to balsams & spruces
25 or 30 feet in height. The openings among them were gay 
with flowers this morning, purple (cucullata) & white (blanche) violets,
dwarf cornel, wild strawberry & dandelions being the most numerous
& conspicuous. The woods lying between this pasture & the 
Stone farm used to abound in fine old red spruces, balsams,
hemlocks, "cedars" rock maples and yellow birches but nearly
all the larger trees & over extensive areas all the coniferous
species have been cut and removed. On the [?] Lumber Co's lands
there are still dense growths of evergreen trees thirty or forty 
feet in height. In these trails I found nearly all the
smaller birds that used to occur there but the number of 
species & individuals,also,was very small where there were
only hardwood trees. In places the trees were so scattering that 
one could see the lake through them & there were a few openings
choked with fallen tops & raspberry bushes. The road has
been widened and most of the rocks removed. It is grass
grown everywhere now & not anywhere, as of yore, overarched
by trees.
Morning 
walk along
wood road
leading from
Lake House
to the
Stone farm
  When I came to the brook I looked at once for the big
hemlock where Maynard found the first Bay-breasted Warbler's
nest known to survive.To my great delight it is still standing
there and in vigorous condition. I heard a Bay-breast within 20 yards
of it this morning & four others along other stretches of this road.