1893
Oct. 2
Lake Umbagog, Maine
  A superb day, cloudless and deliciously warm although the
wind blew strong all day from the north west.
  Spelman and I spent  the day skirting the shores of the
North Bay, he in his open canoe, I in the sailing canoe. We saw
a good many Sheldrake one of which S. killed, stalking it as it
sat basking in the sun on the shore. I missed two long flying
shots. We lunched at the entrance of Sturtevant's Cove on a
clean sandy beach thickly marked with what I took to be Otter
tracks. About 30 Sheldrake and 10 or 12 Black Ducks flew out of
the cove when Spelman paddled around it. A Horned Greebe was
fishing off shore.
[margin]North Bay['margin]
[margin]Goosanders[/margin]
[margin]Horned Greebe[/margin]
  In the late afternoon we returned to Moose Point where we
found two Beetle-head Plover and a number of small waders. I
shot a Pectoral, two Dunlins and a Bonaparte's Sandpiper. The
evening flight of Duck was very light and we had no shots. Snipe
came in at dusk in numbers, Dytiscus beetles were continually
rising from the marsh, a Horned Greebe mewed out on the Lake.
[margin]Evening at Moose Point
Beetle-heads
Pectoral
Dunlins
Bonaparte's S 
Snipe[/margin]