Lake Umbagog.
1896
May 27
(no 3)

Pine Point

of the tub. I was interested to find on the ground beside it
several of his smaller quills showing that they must be 
very easily and frequently detached. He did not call again
during the night.

Varying Hare attracted by a jack light.

  During the chase of the Hedgehog we started a Rabbit, which,
on our return, we saw sitting up on its hind legs in the 
path. We stopped when, almost immediately, and with no
apparent fear but evidently impelled by a burning curiosity,
the ordinarily timid animal came hopping towards us
approaching within a yard of the light. It was in summer
pelage but with a good deal of white about the ears.

Acadian Owl "saw-whetting"

  Soon after this the Saw-whet owl at Moll's Rock began
filing and kept it up without the slightest cessation for two
or three minutes. We could hear him distinctly but faintly
although the distance is nearly if not quite 1 1/2 miles.
The air, of course, was perfectly still at the time. The call
reminded me of that of Glaucidium (the Trinidad species)
but it was more metallic in quality and infinitely more
prolonged - that is to say there were very many more repetitions
of the note probably over 100 for they were given at the rate
of about four every five seconds. I am now conscious of having
heard this sound nearly every evening since we came here
but of having mistaken it for that of the grating of the
metallic drop rudder of my sailing canoe. Indeed when heard
at this distance it very closely resembles the clanking of a
piece of tin against other metal.