1893
Sept. 22
Lake Umbagog, Maine
[margin]Lakeside[/margin]
  Cloudy and calm with light rain in the forenoon and a
downpour in the afternoon.
  At 10A.M. I strolled out with Don and beat thoroughly the
woodcock covers about Sweat's and hurriedly and superficially
those in the Brown clearing. In the former Don found and point-
ed a Woodcock which lay in the brakes in an opening among spruces
and gave me a very easy shot when it rose. This was the only
game bird that i got -- or saw -- during the forenoon.
[margin]Woodcock Shooting[/margin]
  The woods and spruce-grown pastures were every where alive
with small birds, not in flocks but scattered about singly or in
small parties. The most interesting species noted were Red
Crossbills, (a flock heard flying) two Pileated Woodpeckers, and
a Horned Lark (flying over a grain stubble). Ten Black Ducks
came from the direction of Upton and alighted in the Sargent
Cove, where I also saw two Great Blue Herons.
[margin]Small birds[/margin]
[margin]Red Crossbills
Pileated W.
Horned Lark
Blacak Ducks
Gr. B. Herons[/margin]
  4.30P.M. Walking along the road to Sargent's. Rain over
but trees dripping and mountains shrouded in mist. Pausing a
moment at a spot a little beyond the brook, where the road
passes through a piece of woods, I am struck by the great variety
of trees and shrubs about me. White pines, hemlocks, arbor
vitae, red and white spruces, elms, yellow and paper birches,
great-leaved poplars, (nearly 100 feet tall) aspens, yellow and
[margin]A stroll
Along the
Errol road[/margin]