Lake Umbagog.
Cambridge River Marshes.
1896
Aug.16
  Cloudy most of the day with a heavy shower in the
afternoon and a still heav[i]er thunder storm in the evening.
  At 9 A.M. I sailed across to Upton.  As I was in this 
stretch of river just above Peaslee's bend and within a
few rods of the spot when I captured the curious Mole
on the 11th I saw another precisely like it crossing
the river towards the west bank. Unlike the first it
swam in a straight line and with comparative ease
although slowly. Keeping close to it, I followed it to the
shore on reaching which it rested itself for a moment and
then literally dove into the soft, somewhat muddy ground
the surface of which heaved & cracked as the creature
forced its way rapidly beneath it. When I prodded the 
surface just above it with my paddle it at once emerged
and ran up the bank into the grass moving rather
fast and very smoothly and evenly. Up to this time I
do not think that it had been aware of my presence.
This species of Mole, whatever it is, must be common
along the banks. [It was Brewer's Mole, as I learned afterwards]
[margin]Another Mole
 like the one 
captured on the 
11th[/margin]
[margin]Parascalops 
breweri[/margin]
  As I was leaving the Upton Landing at 1 P.M. I
saw a Hummingbird chasing a King bird over the open
marshes 50 or 60 feet above the ground. Keeping above
the big, clumsy fellow it gave him a good dose of the
medicine which he is so fond of administering to the Crows
and Hawks darting down at & apparently striking his
head and forcing him to dodge as well as to put forth his
best speed. At length this Hummer ceased this evidently
wanton persecution and, rising & falling in long,deep
undulations, shot off for the nearest woods looking no bigger than
a Bumble Bee against the white sky.
[margin]Hummer 
attacks a 
Kingbird[/margin]