Lake Umbagog.
Megalloway River
1896
September  15
(No 2)
  There were no Ducks in Pine Hill Pond but in one of the
small ponds just over on the left I got a long shot
at a Whistler but missed it.
  We next landed at Pulpit Rock where Will took
me back into the woods on the south side of Pine Hill
and showed me some very large & interesting boulders
covered with the finest growth of rock ferns that I
have ever seen. Under one of them was a porcupine's
den with a well-beaten path leading from it. I
spent the remainder of the forenoon photographing these
boulders and we lunched by the side of the cold spring
just below the camping ground where two young
men had put up their tent. They told us that Ducks
were numerous in the ponds along the river above
and that they saw Deer almost daily but neither
they nor we said anything about the Moose.
[margin]Pulpit Rock
woods
Rock Fern on
Big boulders
Porcupine's
den!
Photography[/margin]
  I heard a Red Crossbill in these woods.
  Starting again after lunch we stopped first
at the long, narrow meadow just above Pulpit Rock.
At the upper end I found a flock of 11 Black Ducks
in a small pond hole and, near, but not actually
associating with, them, a solitary young drake Wood Duck.
I spent more than an hour attempting to stalk these
birds but whenever I got them in a good place & crawled
towards them through the grass it happened that before
I could reach them they swam off to some other part
of the pond. Finally I lost patience and directed Will
to make a circuit & try to drive them to me. When
he showed himself they all started in my direction but
only three came within range I brought down two of
[margin]Stalking
Black Ducks
in Pulpit Rock
meadow[/margin]