Lake Umbagog, Maine
Errol Hill Pond.
1895
Sept.19
  Clear with light variable winds & long intervals of calm. Very warm.
  At 9 A.M. we started off on another all day's trip Jim
rowing C & E.R.S. in their boat, I going in the cruising canoe.
I sailed most of the way from camp to Sweat Meadow
but we stopped so often to take photographs that it
was noon when we reached the head of the meadow &
lunched.
[margin]Photographing[/margin]
  After lunch E.R.S., Jim & I walked in through the woods
to Errol Hill Pond which was looking its very loveliest in
the clear afternoon light. A Great Blue Heron was standing
erect in the marsh at the eastern and & three Whistlers were
diving & fishing near him. At the western end a solitary Black
Duck was feeding near shore. After spending a little time
on the shore together we separated Jim taking E.R.S. back to
Sweat's Meadow while I chose a comfortable place on the
shore under some overhanging branches & waited for Jim to
return & help me take some photographs. While he was gone
a Deer came within a few rods of me passing behind me
through the dense woods. I did not get so much as a glympse
at him but I could trace his progress by the sound of
his footsteps. Once he stepped on a dead branch & broke it
& repeatedly I heard his horns rattle against the stems
of the small trees. After Jim came we found the fresh track
of a large buck when I had heard him pass.
[margin]Errol Hill
Pond[/margin]
[margin]Water fowl[/margin]
margin]Deer[/margin]
  We took several photographs & started back just as the
sun was sinking behind Errol Hill. All the Ducks flew
when we showed ourselves the Black Duck going straight off,
the Whistlers rising in a great circle before they could
get above the trees & ridges.
[margin]Whistlers[/margin]
  While I was waiting at the pond I heard & saw a