Lake Umbagog, Maine.
Pine Point
1894
Sept.12
  A superb day with wonderfully clear air & sunshine, the
sky deep blue. Calm up to 10 A.M. after which a N.W.
wind blew strongly (but not violently) up to about sunset.
Ther. 38 [degrees] at sunrise, 48 [degrees] at 10 P.M.; it did not rise
above 60 [degrees] at any time during the day.
  Woodpeckers, Jays, Squirrels and various small birds
including Nuthatches, Chickadees, Kinglets & Warblers were
very numerous and noisy about the camp when I
arose this morning. As I was taking my bath in the
Lake I heard a Black--bellied Plover and a few minutes
later one or more Golden Plover in the direction of
Moose Point.
[margin]Birds about
camp
Beetle-head Plover
Golden "[/margin]
  Among the Warblers about camp I identified only a male
Black-throated Blue and two Yellow-rumps
[margin]Warblers[/margin]
  I spent the early part of the forenoon taking
photographs on the Point & along the path to the
duck cove. After this I wrote. Jim went to
Sunday Cove for Partridges and at noon returned
with two, both old hens.
[margin]Photography[/margin]
  As I was photographing on the shore a Gos Hawk
passed me within about 100 yards and then plunged
into the woods. It was a very large bird, a female evidently
and, I thought, [delete]a[/delete] young [delete]specimen[/delete].
[margin]Gos Hawk[/margin]
  Soon after dinner I took the canoe & my gun
and sailed across to the Outlet on reaching which
I skirted closely a space of bare but somewhat
hillocky, muddy ground where I have often found
waders of various kinds but on which I could see, on
[margin]Tringa
bairdii[/margin]