Lake Umbagog
Cambridge River Marshes
1896
October 2
  A dark, gloomy day with light east wind and steady rain
from morning to night.
  At daybreak I was awakened by several shots fired in quick
succession near the barn. It turned out that one of the
Wo[?]ell party had been out with his gun and had fired
at five birds which he found in Sargent's Cove and which
from his description I think must have been Night Herons.
(This was afterwards confirmed by the fact that early next
morning I heard a Night Heron quawking in the direction
of the cove).
[margin]Night 
Herons in 
Sargent's 
Cove.[/margin]
  At 7.30 AM I started for Upton. Just inside the mouth
of the river I saw three small waders flying about high
in air. They uttered a whit - whit somewhat like the
call of T. fuscicollis but louder & mellower and also a
curious purring sound. Shortly afterwards while I was
trying to paddle up to a Whistler in the large lagoon
or pond near the Lake House these three birds came
overhead & alighted in a cluster of lily pads near
the middle of the pond when I saw that they were 
Red Phalaropes. They rose again in a minute or less 
& swung past giving me a good shot but my shell
missed fire.
[margin]Red Phalaropes[/margin]
  There were two Ring necks on the shore of this pond
& I heard the calls of a Grass bird & a Winter Yellowleg
somewhere in the distance while I was there. I
afterwards learned that Crocker killed then
" Winters" on the marsh in the afternoon.
[margin]Ring - necks
Pectoral S.
Gr. Yellowlegs [/margin]
  Charlie Douglas came over to Upton with the
Aziscohos at noon & started back at about 4 P.M.