Lake Umbagog.
Outlet Marshes
1896
August 27
  Most of the day cloudy with frequent showers but the
late afternoon and evening clear with light north-west wind.
  In the forenoon we crossed the Lake and went down
river to a little below Leonard's Pond, Dr. Gehring fishing
& catching several pickerel, I cruising about in the sailing
canoe in search of birds. They proved scarce enough for
I saw nothing but a pair of Black Ducks, a few Great
Blue Herons, an Eagle, a Duck Hawk, and three Ospreys,
and a Greater Yellow-legs. I shot the last calling it
from a distance of probably a mile for at first we
could only just hear its whistle although the air was
still & damp. It came over us three times descending
each time it turned & I finally dropped it into the
water between the boats.
[margin]Big birds
Ducks, Herons,
Eagle, Osprey[/margin]
[margin]I shoot a
Greater Yellow
leg.[/margin]
  There were a dozen or more Purple Martins on the
tall dead pine near the entrance to Leonard's Pond
and a few Eave, Barn & White-bellied Swallows were
flying about over the marshes. I also saw a 
solitary King bird and a number of Yellow rumps
among the stubs.
  The Duck Hawk was a large [female] probably the same bird
seen on the 21st. She flew swiftly over the water & in
over Moose Point where two Great Blue Herons, evidently
alarmed by her appearance rose with a great outrcry,
& mounted upward in a spiral course. The Falcon
rose above them with a great bound and shot down
close past them three or four times in quick succession
evidently for the mere fun of frightening them.
[margin]Falco p.
anatum[/margin]