Lake Umbagog. 
Bronzed Crackle* 
bfeat have young in the balsams on my island* There are several other 
pairs, I find, nesting in the tall white pines that shade the little 
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red school house^ Yesterday and again to-day, I saw Robins chasing 
some of the Grackles with loud, excited cries and^no doubt ( not with¬ 
out good reason. The Grackles prowl about everywhere In 3*arch of 
food, spending much time in walking about on floating logs and drift 
wood about the shores of the lake* Yesterday I saw a female fly in 
under the old Abbott Mill and remain there for two or three minutes 
searching among some half submerged Slgbs, probably for frogs or 
minnows* 
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 arborage, a distance ef about 300 yards. They alightec^- 
all together on a boom that closes one of the channels of our pres¬ 
ent cove and remained there ten minutes or more watching us critical- 
iyevidently in the hope of getting mojfie of our surplus bread and 
crackers. But none had been thrown out and after awhile our sable 
visitors flew back to their island* (Eight Grackles visited our cove <m~ 
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