Lake Umbagog.
1896
June 4
(No 2)
camp. During the afternoon I saw a Hooded Merganser and two
Wood Ducks and heard a Greater Yellow-leg whistling among the
dead larches on Moose Point. The water was three or four feet deep
everywhere among the trees & the bird must have been on the
floating drift wood.
[margin]Moose Point
Hooded Mer.
Gr. Yellow legs
Wood Ducks[/margin]
  At 9 P.M. as I was writing in our open camp a Saw-whet began
filing in the birch grove within 50 yards or less of where I was sitting.
The air was perfectly still & I heard him to good advantage. There
was positively no ringing or other metallic quality to the notes at this
distance. They were simply so many whistles very similar in quality
to those of Glaucidium (the Trinidad species) but rather more
guttural and each with a "double-tongued" form - whur'dle - whu'dle
I should write them. Evidently the resemblance (slight at best) to
saw filing is lost when one is at all near the bird. When it
is very far among (as I have proved by direct comparison on
several evenings this season) its call is very similar to that
of Pickerings' Hyla.
  Last night at about ten o'clock a Barred Owl hooted a few
times very near the camp. I have not heard a Bubo this
spring.
[margin]Barred Owl
Gr. Horned "[/margin]