Lake Umbagog
Megalloway River
1896
September 15
(No. 3)
them with my first barrel and hit the third bird hard
with the second but he flew out of sight.
  At Horse-Shoe Bend I was surprised to see a large
Land Tortoise scuttle down the steep bank and plunge
into the river. This is the first Tortoise of any kind that
I have ever seen in this region and I have always
understood that none were to be found but Will Sargent
now tells me that "a small blackish Turtle" is abundant
in Cambridge River above the Forks. He could not remember
that it had either yellow spots or red markings & I
failed to recognize it by his rather vague description.
He has never seen this or any other species in Umbagog.
[margin]Land Tortoise[/margin]
  We had confidently expected to find Bottle Brook Pond
alive with Ducks but there were only eight, all Black
Ducks and all huddled together on a small grassy
island off the point between the right & middle areas
of the pond but quite out of range from the shore.
[margin]Black Ducks[/margin]
[margin]Bottle Brook
Pond[/margin]
  In the left area (or "leg" as it is usually called) I
started two Herons and a fine old Bald Eagle. There
was a Carolina Grebe in the middle area. Deer tracks
were scarce about this pond & none of these sure
were fresh.
[margin]Herons.
Bald Eagle
Pied b. Grebe[?]
Deer tracks[/margin]
  I took several photographs here - one, that turned
out to be a very beautiful, of the pool where Don
lost the wounded Wood Duck several years ago.
[margin]Photography[/margin]
  A good many of the spruces have been cut about
the shores of Bottle Brook Pond river last autumn
but still the place retains nearly if not quite all
its former attractiveness & beauty.