Lake Umbagog.
1896
September 10
(No 2)
  Late in the afternoon I paddled across to the Outlet,
down river to Richardson's carry and thence across to
the outer end of Moose Point where I waited until
it was nearly dark. Only three Ducks came over the
point and they kept on towards the Outlet. I heard
a Snipe and some small wader, probably an Ereunetes.
The heavy rain of the 6th has raised the Lake a foot 
or more and the mud flats, as well as much of the
grass-covered marshes, near the Outlet are under water.
Hence it is not surprising that about all the small
waders have disappeared. Besides the Ereunetes just
mentioned I heard (and also saw) only a solitary
Golden Plover.
[margin]Snipe
Ereunetes?[/margin]
[margin]Golden Plover[/margin]
  Last night a Great Horned Owl hooted for an hour
or more in the hemlocks near the head of the boat cove
on Pine Point. This evening he began his serenade 
before sunset and was presently answered by another
bird in the same woods, the two hooting responses to 
each other for nearly half-an-hour. One bird regularly
said hoo, hoo-hoo, hoo, hoo; the other hoo, hoo-hoo-hoo, hoo,
hoo. These are the first Great Horned Owls that I 
have heard on Pine Point this season but Will Sargent
heard one in Glaspy Cove on the evening of the 8th.
[maargin]Bubo
virginianus.[/margin]
  On the western side of the Lake I have once heard
an old bird near Moll's Rock and repeatedly young birds
in the stubs near Leonard's Pond.