Lake Umbagog.
1896
September 23
  Clear and cold (34 [degrees] at sunrise) with violent north to
north-west wind.
  The necessity of looking after the work on the big boat
kept me near camp all day. There was a good deal
of desultory shooting on the marshes and Will Sargent
who went down the Lake in the forenoon reported seeing
a flock of about thirty Scoters which he thinks were
Butter-bills off B. Brook Cove.
[margin]Flock of
Scoters[/margin]
  A flock of eleven Pine Linnets alighted in an arbor vitae
in our boat cove this morning.
[margin]Pine Linnets[/margin]
" [September] 24
  Cloudy with S.W. wind and occasional light showers.
  There was again a good deal of shooting on the
Outlet marshes but I had no time to go there
or elsewhere to-day. I saw a flock of six Ducks which
looked unfamiliar crossing the Lake high in air
this morning. they were about the size of Widgeon
& seemed to have very white bellies like that species.
[margin]Strange-
looking Ducks[/margin]
  Just after breakfast I found two very tame Swainson's
Thrushes in the woods near the shore in front of the
camp. They kept close together running along over the
ground and calling softly to each other using the
night call exclusively.
[margin]Night call of
Turdus
swainsonii[/margin]
  A Colaptes & a little flock of Chickadees were the only
other small birds seen.
  Last night a Fox actually kept me awake for nearly
half an hour by his persistent barking near the camp.
The sound is very loud & penetrating. It resembles the
cry of Ardea herodias for which we often mistake it at first.
[margin]Fox barking[/magin]