Lake Umbagog* 
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Icjo j,• At least 4 or 5 pairs of Bronzed Grackle are breeding in the 
group of balsam firs standing on the island by my boat house • I watc^~z> 
ed them for an hour or more to-day as they came and went across the 
water between the island anf the mainland, bringing food in their 
bills for their young and taking away from the nest the white excreta 
of the young which they dropped inUthe lake as soon as they were well 
out^a te the outer ranks of alders. The young in one of the ne 3 ts must 
have been well grown to judge by the loud clamor they set up whenever 
their parents appeared* I saw one female Grackle carrying nesting 
material into the firs but all the others appeared to have young* Yet 
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it is only 22 days since the lake was encased with icey (it went out 
on May 14) and most of the country about it buried deep in snow* The 
Grackles appear to get most of their food in the farms of Upton Hill. 
The Bronzed Grackles nesting on my island do not appear 
o agree with Dr. Fisher in considering the Broad-winged Hawk an\ inte4 — .. -- 
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ligeitt burd, for I saw four or five of them leave their rookery to-day 'fS . 
to pursue one of these Hawks across the lake with cries of indignation 
and alarm. They pressed him hard at one time forcing him to twist 
and double as they rose above and darted down at him in quick succes<fc/u>i_, 
