English Lakes - Windermere
Ther. [Thermometer] Tues. [Tuesday] Sept. 21, 1909 [September 21, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
Fair.
  Partly cloudy; cool with light N. [North] wind.
Starting at 9.45 A.M. we went down
to the shore of Lake Windermere, I
in a coach, the others walking, a distance
of fully two miles. Took steamer up
to head of lake (about 3 miles). Drove
thence in rubber-tired landeau [landau] to
Ambleside where we lunched. Visited
Harrett Martineau's house [Harriet Martineau's house], Wordsworth's
houses & his grave, a most interesting
old Saxon Church founded in 7th century.
The drive was, I think, the most
beautiful I have ever taken in Europe.
The mountains very fine, the lake
charming. Saw no wild water fowl except
Little Black-head Gulls. Tame Swans in 
Lake Windermere. Three Wagtails. Robins
singing everywhere. Got back to Riggs
Hotel at 5.30. Walked up hill behind it
with Englishman & his daughter. Saw a
pair of Magpies in pasture. Read
aloud in evening.
[margin]They proved to be Lt. Col. Clough Taylor [Lieutenant Colonel Edward Harrison Clough-Taylor] & his wife Lady Mary of Firby Hall Yorkshire.[/margin]

English Lakes - Ulleswater [Ullswater]
Ther. [Thermometer] Wed. [Wednesday] Sept. 22, 1909 [September 22, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
Fair.
  Sunny all day bit very hazy. Calm. Cool.
We all went to Patterdale by motor starting
at 11.30 & reaching Ulleswater Hotel at 12.30;
distance 16 m [miles]. Road steep, narrow very winding,
between high stone walls. Scenery magnificent
especially in Kirkstone Pass & about Patterdale.
Saw a Merlin (it looked exactly like a Pigeon 
Hawk, as it soared & skimmed over the moors),
5 or 6 Pipits, collie dogs driving sheep down
steep mountain side. Lunched at hotel
& then (1.45) took steamer to head of lake
(7 m [miles]) & back. Saw 3 Red Deer on sky line
of high mountain ridge, a big flock of gulls
shouting & wheeling down to lake a few Rooks
& Jackdaws. No Ducks or Moor hens. The south
end of lake more beautiful than any spot of
water I ever saw before; the hotel most 
satisfactory, the village very attractive.
 On return trip to Windermere nearly ran into
another motor while crossing bridge. Saw flock
of about 20 Missel Thrushes [Mistle Thrushes]. Got back at 5
walked down through lane & park to Windermere
[margin]shore reaching it at sunset. Robins singing everywhere.[/margin]
