Lake Umbagog.
1896
September 1
(No 2)
  The Yellow-legs were all back in the old place. We
counted 29 of them to which add the three that I shot
this morning and four which, as I afterwards found.
Crocker killed this four making 36 as the number
of birds in the original flock. They were no less shy than
they had been in the morning but I managed to secure
these were all Greater Yellow legs & two about flying over
a long distance off.
[margin]Yellowlegs[/margin]
  We also found on these flats a flock of seven Grass Birds
of which I shot two and a flock of eight Semipalmated
Sandpipers of which I also killed two.
[margin]Pectorals.
Ereunetes.[/margin]
  Great Blue Herons were unusually numerous on this
marsh to-day & I saw two Marsh Hawks there, both
brown birds. Whenever they approached the Yellow legs
the latter would rise and fly off clamoring loudly &
showing evident alarm although the Hawks did not
apparently menace them in any way nor, indeed pay any
attention to them.
[margin]Circus
hudsonius[/margin]
  Along the Androscoggin we saw two fine adult Eagles
one a very small, the other an unusually big one. An
Eagle when flying carries the fore part of the body raised
appreciably - ie the [delete]whole[/delete] central line or long axis of the
body & neck is not horizontal - and the neck looks much
longer than in any other of the Raptors. By these
characteristics it may be most easily distinguished
from an Osprey when flying at a distance. Nevertheless
even Will Sargent sometimes confounds the two - as
happened yesterday.
[margin]Haliaetus
leucocephalus[/margin]