Lake Umbagog, Maine.
1894
Sept.26
(No 2)
It was very cold when I sat waiting for him on an
exposed point near the head of the island but I was
entertained by watching two Bald Eagles, one young, the other
a fine adult bird. The former was at first perched on
a stub eating a large fish. After it had finished its meal
it flew to some green white pines on the north shore of the
north channel where the old bird had gone to roost a short
time before. Both birds alighting in the same tree about midway
from the ground and top and among dense foliage. The
young Eagle squeaked loudly as it flew to roost.
[margin]Haliaetus 
leucocephalus[/margin]
  Will Sargent reported seeing two Greater Yellow-legs on the
marsh opposite Leonard's Pond. One of them flew about within
every sight and hearing.
[margin]Gr. Yellowlegs[/margin]
  The nights have been very quiet of late since the moon
has left us. The Owls have been wholly silent and about
all the migrating Warblers have gone. The height of
the migration of small, nocturnal-flying birds was
between the 10th and 20th September.
[margin]Owls silent
Migration[/margin]
  Before starting this morning I exposed five plates on
our old drummer from a blind which we have made
just twenty-five feet from the spot where the bird
sits. He was evidently wholly unaware of any pressure
until just after I had much the last exposure when
he suddenly took alarm & ran off along the log, "quitting".
I had a fine view of him through my peep hole but
noticed nothing new. The fact that his torsi, for their
entire length, were pressed down as the log was evident.
Also it was clear that his wings did not strike his body.
[margin]Bonasa u
togata[/margin]