1894.
Sept. 22
(No. 2)
Lake Umbagog, Maine.
sheltered little nook in the pond on the extremity of Moose Point
and pushing the canoe into some rushes lay there until it
was nearly dark. A Black Duck quacked at frequent intervals
for half an hour or more in the direction of the Outlet and
a flock of six others passed up the middle of the Lake but
not a Duck of any kind came near my station.
[margin]Moose Point 
at 
evening.
Black Ducks[/margin]
   As twilight deepened Snipe began flying about over the
marshes and one of them drummed thrice in quick
succession. Several shot past close over my head making
the same rushing sound that I noted last evening. One
descending with exceptional velocity made a sharp whizzing
sound.
[margin]Snipe[/margin]
  Several Musk rats crossed my little pond in the twilight
furrowing its glassy surface with silvery ripples.
[margin]Musk rats[/margin]
  The Great Horned Owls held high carnival this evening beginning
soon after sunset and hooting steadily until I went to
sleep (10 P.M.). At one time three different birds were in
hearing, two of them on the Outlet marshes, the third on
Pine Point. Will Sargent tells me that they feed largely
on Musk rats which accounts for their persistent attachment
to these Outlet meadows. He says that they rob the
trappers of many of their "rats" devouring them while in
the traps.
[margin]Bubo virgin-
ianus[/margin]