Lake Umbagog.
1909.
June 13 [June 13, 1909]
(No 3)
  The Redstart occurs here during the breeding season almost
if not quite as frequently among coniferous trees on high ground
as in deciduous growths along streams & lake shores. There
are several males scattered about through the dense thickets
of young spruces in the hill pastures behind the Lake House
& I have no doubt their mates are now sitting on nests
in these trees. I find the Redstart in old spruce timber,
also, & I remember seeing it in former years on ridges
at some distance back from the lake. It is very common.
Local
distribution 
of
Redstart
  Alva Coolidge tells me that he has twice within this
past week seen a Black Duck in B. Pond. He thinks
it has a nest there. He found a nest with 9 eggs several years ago
on a rocky island only a few yards square, but covered with
low bushes, in this pond. There were five or six old nests
on the island & only a foot or two apart.
Black Duck.
  Alva Coolidge has seen no Loons in B. Pond this
year. He hears that a pair have nested for several years
past on the north side of the island in Leonard's Pond.