Lake Umbagog.
Cambridge River Marshes.
1896
September 28
  Heavy rain during the night clearing off cold and windy early
this morning.
  At 7 a.m. started for Upton in the big boat, Charley Tidswell
rowing. Just as we entered the mouth of the Cambridge a
heavy squall accompanied by a dash of rain swept over the
marshes. Immediately afterwards we heard Yellow-legs whistling
and saw a flock of a dozen or more whirling high in air.
They went off towards the south but returned presently and
alighted with some others which were feeding on a mud bar.
The combined flock contained just twenty-seven, all
Greater Yellow-legs. There were also two Dunlins and a few
Peeps (Ereunetes). Charley paddled me up to these birds &
I killed five Yellow-legs and a Dunlin at one shot,
afterwards bringing down another Yellow-leg that came
flying past. The remainder of the flock rose high in air
and disappeared.
[margin]Waders on
the Cambridge
River marshes[/margin]
[margin]Big flock of
Gr. Yellowlegs
I kill five
at one shot.[/margin]
  As I was paddling back to Lakeside at evening I found
the other Dunlin feeding in company with the Ereunetes
and killed all four birds - reluctantly enough but the
Ereunetes seemed to me to have very long bills & I suspected
that they were E. occidentalis but after securing them
I decided that they were all E. pusillus.
[margin]Dunlins[/margin]
[margin]Ereunetes[/margin]
  The Cambridge River marshes are too dry for Snipe
but the flats at the mouth of the river are in
capital condition for Yellow-legs & Sandpipers.
I am a little surprised to find one or two Eagles &
Ospreys lingering about this end of the Lake for
I have not observed either species near the Outlet
for a week or more.
[margin]Eagles
Ospreys.[/margin]