Lake Umbagog
Outlet.
1896
September 3
  A dark rainy day, warm & sultry with almost no wind.
  I am establishing a custom of going to the Outlet every morning
to look after the waders for this is about the height of their
migration here and the extensive mud flats, just laid bare by
the rapidly falling water (they are chasing it off at Errol to
repair the dam there), are in the best possible conditions for
these birds.
  The Lake was dead calm when I crossed it at about 8 A.M.
this morning. As I approached the Outlet a Loon was
laughing down the Lake and two Whistlers were diving for
food near the grass but I neither saw nor heard anything
of the waders until I landed on the right bank when a
pair of small Sandpipers rose and flew across the river.
Although they started fully 200 yds. off I felt nearly sure
that they were Baird's Sandpipers and when I followed &
found them feeding on a mud flat near the end of the
south marsh this conviction proved to be correct. I approached
them within about twenty paces and watched them closely
for at least fifteen minutes. As my observations have been
written out at length in my systematic notes I will not
repeat them here but will simply add that I finally
got both birds in line and killed them with a charge of five
shot. I also shot a young Eave Swallow.
[margin]Tringa
bairdii[/margin]
  There were five Eave Swallows & a young Martin feeding
over the marsh this morning.
[margin]Swallows[/margin]
  Besides the Baird's Sandpipers I saw a solitary Grass Bird,
a Snipe, and two flocks of Ereunetes, one of nine, the others
of seven or eight birds.
[margin]Waders[/margin]
  (I afterwards heard that the Crockers started 13 Snipes & killed 9 of them)
[margin]Snipe[/margin]