Lake Umbagog, Maine.
1895
Aug.30
(no 2)
  Very curiously, however, no fish except the Pickerel were
affected. At least none were found dead or dying and there
are now as many Chub, Suckers, Minnows & Trout as usual.
The Lake was frozen more solidly and for a longer period
than usual last winter but the greater part - or at last
a large part - of the Pickerel did not perish until after
the ice had gone.
[margin]trip to 
Lake House[/margin]
  At about 10 A.M. we rowed over to Upton. We saw an
unusual number of [delete]Hawks[/delete] birds of prey, two or three Eagles,
two Ospreys, two Marsh Hawks, a pair of Sparrow Hawks,
and one of the large Buteos. Just before we started an adult [female]
Buteo latissimus came soaring over the fields in front of the
house.
[margin\Large birds on
the Cambridge
River marshes[/margin]
  Near Peaslee's turn Jim saw two Black Ducks swim into the
grass & paddling to the spot we flushed seven of these birds.
After inspecting the three new boats that Jim has made
for me during the past winter I took a few photographs
and dined at the Lake House. There were quantities
of small birds in the alders by the river, in the bog
behind the barn and in the beds of rank weeds that
have grown up about the cellar where the Umbagog House
formerly stood. [delete]The place last named offered some strong
attraction to[/delete] were a dozen or more Red Crossbills which were
accompanied by a pair of White-winged Crossbills and a
single Pine Linnet. They clustered thickly together on a
space of bare ground where they seemed to be scooping up
the earth with their bills & swallowing it in large mouthfuls.
Standing within a few yards of them & using my glass I
became satisfied that it was actually the earth which they
were eating. Probably salt had been strewn there. All the
[margin]Black Ducks[/margin]
[margin]Small birds
near Lake House[/margin]
[margin]Loxia minor
et leucoptera