Lake Umbagog.
1896
September 16
(No 2)
  He explored all the nooks and crevices among these boulders
with great thoroughness keeping most of the time in the
water between or beneath them wading, swimming or diving
and often when we could not see him marking his position
by the loud "sloshing" noise which he made. Every now
and then he would stretch up his long slender neck
between two stones or leaping to the top of one would
shake his dripping body violently and look keenly around
before resuming his search for food. All his movements
were characterized by the fierce, intensely nervous energy
peculiar to the Mink family. The expression of his
face combined stupidity, cunning and devilish cruelty
in about equal degrees, but his pretty, dark, glossy
fur, long lithe body, and graceful, sinuous movements
made him on the whole a singularly attractive
& interesting creature. His eyesight seemed to be none
of the best but when, at length, he discovered us
he showed much alarm and leaving the shore
bounded up the steep slope behind us and disappeared
in the woods.
[margin]Habits of the
Mink[/margin]
  Besides these mammals I found a rather large and
interesting mixed flock of birds on this point. There were
Chickadees, Hudson Bay Tits, Kinglets, Creepers, a Winter Wren
two or three Nashville Warblers, a Mniotilta, a Parula, a
Black Poll, a Black-throated Green, a Red-eyed Vireo,
a Sapsucker etc. etc.
[margin]Mixed flock
of small birds[/margin]
  Along the shore Kingfishers were rattling & chasing one
another. Two Loons also appeared at the mouth of
the cove for a few minutes.