Lake Umbagog, Maine.
Outlet Marshes
1894
Oct. 1
(No 3)
  There was a large flock of Robins among the scattered trees
and bushes at the entrance to Leonard's Pond and with
or near them three Rusty Blackbirds, several Song and
White-throated Sparrows, a Swamp Sparrow and Two Yellow-
Rumps.
[margin]Robins
Small birds[/margin]
  On the marsh opposite I shot a typical specimen of
Dendroica hypochrysea, a young bird. It came flying from
the stubs next the river and alighted well out on
the marsh when I found it running about on the 
mud in company with a Savannah Sparrow. It kept
appearing and disappearing among the tussock grass and
as I advanced flitted on before me giving me much
trouble before I secured[?] it.
[margin]Dendroica p.
hypochrysea[/margin]
  Late in the afternoon I sailed across the Lake again
and running the canoe into a shallow creek directly
opposite Leonard's Pond sat there until it was nearly
dark. My chief object was to find out whether the
Snipe which I drove away from the marsh this morning
would return at evening. They came from every direction in
extraordinary numbers as soon as twilight fell, and for
fifteen or twenty minutes their scaip call and the rushing
sound of their wings were simply incessant. I heard one
make a curious low jarring sound soon after it had alighted
near me.
[margin]Gallinago
delicata[/margin]
  As I was paddling homeward a Fox barked a number of
times in quick succession exactly like a small dog. I
also heard a Great Blue Heron make a tremendous outcry
- a succession of hoarse screams such a wounded Heron will utter.
Will heard this bird distinctly from Pine Point. He thinks
it was caught by either a Fox or a "Cat" Owl.
[margin]Fox barking[/margin]
[margin]Gr. Bl. Heron
makes a
great outcry
at night[/margin]