1894
Sept. 22
Lake Umbagog, Maine.
  Clear and very warm; the early part of the day calm, a
fresh S. W. wind in the afternoon.
  I spent the forenoon shooting Snipe on the marshes opposite
the entrance to Leonard's Pond. The ground where so many
birds were feeding last night, although plentifully "chalked" 
and bored, harbored only a single Snipe this morning. 
After killing him I trouped for over an hour without
firing another shot but at length from some long grass
near the river bank I put up over twenty birds in
the course of ten or fifteen minutes. Twelve of them rose
at once and went off in a compact flock like
Sandpipers down and alighting not far from the spot
where they started. They were very wild at first but
after I had fired a few shots at them and scattered
them they lay better. Still I was forced to content myself
with long shots most of the time and consequently missed
a number of times. When I returned to the boat & counted
my birds I found that I I had bagged eleven.
[margin]Gallinago
delicata[/margin]
  I do not remember to have ever before seen Wilson's Snipe
behave in the manner just described when the sky
was so absolutely clear and the sun so hot. Moreover
I saw a good many birds on the ground standing
erect watching me or running with a skulking, crouching
gait over spaced of bare mud & this is unusual save in
cloudy weather.
  The only Waders besides Snipe which I started were a
Pectoral and a Solitary Sandpiper.
[margin]Pectoral S.
Solitary ".[/margin]
  I spent most of the afternoon sailing on the
Lake in the little canoe. At evening I chose a
[margin]Sailing on
the Lake[/margin]