AUDUBON JOURNAL 



Saw a Large flock of Turkeys fly across from an 

 Island to the Main, kifled None — 



We are Landed about half a Mile above the Cumber- 

 land Island the weather not so cold as it feels the 

 Thermometer at 38 — had some spits of snow in the 

 forenoon — 



Vast flocks of Ducks & Geese flying Southwardly 



Monday Novemb' 13th 1820 



a Beautifull Morning enable** me to go on with my 

 Drawing very early — a Light frost embelished the 

 raising of the Sun 



We Landed at the Middle of Cumberland Island to 

 dispatch a Skiff' to take Soundings — 



finished My Duck by Dinner Time and Was Lucky 

 enough to kill another of the same kind, precisely a 

 Like but rather Less in Size, it is with apparent Difi- 

 culty or a Sluggish disposition that these Birds rise 

 out of the Watter & yet wiU not dive at the flash of a 

 Gun — while on the Wing are very Swift 



this afternoon I Begun the Drawing of the Imber 

 Diver had Two Long Chases after a Couple of others, 

 that out Managed our Skill — they would Dive as if 

 Going down the Stream and raised from One to Two 

 hundred Yards above us — they frequently Dipp their 

 Bill in the Watter, and I think have the power of judg- 

 ing in that Way if the place Contains Fish — One I shot 



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