Lake Umbagog.
Pine Point.
1896
September 20
  Cloudless with clear, bracing air, the wind north-west and
blowing very heavily through the forenoon but moderating in the
afternoon & falling calm at sunset. Ther. 40 [degrees] at 8 a.m. 50 [degrees] at
8 P.M.
  Spent the day about camp taking a short sail on
the Lake in the afternoon. No small birds on the Point
excepting a Nuthatch, a few Chickadees, two Golden-crested
Kinglets and two young Magnolia Warblers.
[margin]Small birds
about camp[/margin]
  Jim, who rowed up from Lakeside late in the day reports
seeing a flock of fully fifty Butter-billed Coots just
below Great Island. they were very restless flying up
& down this stretch of Lake continually, once coming
within gun shot.
  At about 8 P.M. just as the moon was rising above
the trees our mysterious Owl paid the Point a second
visit honking and hooting for nearly ten minutes. He
appeared to be on the  hemlock knoll but when I
attempted to steal thither along one path he became
silent & presently began again nearly out of hearing towards
the east. He did not utter the haink cry to-night.
I believe his honk is almost as loud as the tock
of the Trinidad Bell Bird.
[margin]The mysterious
Owl again
visits camp[/margin]
  Soon after the Owl departed the men called me out
again to hear a Fox who was barking in our cove. I stole
to the edge of the knoll and heard him to great advantage.
His bark was much like that of a dog but more husky
or "ragged" as Will expressed it. It was very loud for the
voice of so small an animal.
[margin]Fox
barking[/margin]