Lake Umbagog.
Outlet Marshes.
1896
September 2
  A calm day with gathering clouds & light east wind in the
afternoon.
  At 8.30 A.M. I paddled over to the Outlet and entered
the river. I had gone but a little way when a Carolina Greebe
started from under the left bank within four or five yards 
of me and flew past & behind me out into the Lake. There
was absolutely no wind at the time. This bird looked like
an adult but another which I found among some lily
pads further down the river was certainly young. I followed
the latter for some distance & repeatedly saw it sink
instead of dive drawing its head & neck down backwards.
Sometimes it showed the rump - or perhaps the ends of the
folded wings - as well as the head and neck with the
back wholly submerged. I could trace its course beneath
the water with perfect accuracy by the leaping and
"skiterring" of the numerous small pickerel which doubtless
mistook it for a particularly large & voracious predatory fish.
[margin]Podilymbus
podiceps[/margin]
  There were five Greater Yellow-legs, a Ring necked Plover and a
flock of nine Semipalmated Sandpipers on the flats at the 
right of the Outlet. Four of the Yellow-legs & the Ring-neck
rose 200 yards or more away & flew out of sight in
the direction of Glaspy Cove.
[margin]Waders[/margin]
  As I was wading about on these flats I happened to
catch sight of a Wilson's Snipe standing in a couching 
attitude between two grassy tussocks its profile sharply
outlined against a space of water beyond. I flushed &
shot it when two others rose wild. One dropped not far
off & I started & killed it. The other flew out of sight.
[margin]Snipe[/margin]