Lake Umbagog, Maine
1895
Sept.15
  Cloudless and warm into light, variable winds & frequent instances
of dead calm.
  At 8 A.M. I started off with Jim taking very small (4x5)
camera. We went first to Glaspy Cove. Soon after turning
the outer point Jim exclaimed "there's a deer". The next
instant I saw it standing at the water's edge with its
head down. The wind blew directly towards it & it presently
raised its head looked intently at us & walked slowly off
along the shore sinking deep into the mud at each step &
drawing out its slender legs slowly. It was a small doe,
a "yearling" Jim said. It had gone only a few rods when
it was joined by a another deer, also a doe but of full size.
The two walked in behind a large rock where they stopped
and remained for fifteen or twenty minutes peeping out at us
curiously over the rock sometimes showing only their ears, at
others their whole heads & a portion of their necks which
looked singularly slender & swan like. At length we shouted
but they would not move. Indeed we had to hammer loudly
on the boat with the oars before they finally erected their
tails and loped off into the stubs.
[margin]Two Deer in
Glaspy Cove[/margin]
  We went as far as B. Brook Cove and after taking a
number of photographs returned to dinner. We saw three
Gray Loons swimming together and a Pileated Woodpecker
which flew across the grandest part of the Lake flapping
slowing & steadily like a crow.
[margin]Young Loons[/margin]
  In the afternoon we rowed to Brandy Ledge & took more
photos. Two flocks of Black Ducks, one of 11 the other of
23 birds were floating out near the middle of the North Bay.
like Scoters. There was much firing on the marshes in the afternoon.
[margin]Black 'Ducks'
"bedded" in
deep water[/margin]