Lake Umbagog.
Cambridge River Marshes
1896
October 2
(No 2)
  I came very near going with him for it was raining
hard at the time and there was little incentive for
a solitary paddle but I was detained by the necessity
of deciding about some work on the house boat.
I missed a rare opportunity by this chance happening
for Douglass killed a Blue Goose with one barrel and
a Lesser Snow Goose with the other both birds which I
have never seen living and both, of course, new to my
Umbagog list. They were on the outer most grassy island
at the mouth of the Cambridge River. When first seen
the "blue" bird was lying down, the other standing erect.
When the steamer was within about 30 yards Frank
Douglass, the engineer, fired at them but missed. They
rose, flew about 80 yds. & alighted in the river.
Charles Douglass then ran the boat to within about
40 yards of them & killed them both. I learned of
all this on my return & at once went to Douglass's
house in the pouring rain and bought the birds of him.
[margin]A Blue & a
Lesser Snow
Goose shot
by Douglass[/margin]
  My paddle back from Upton was without incident
of any kind save that I heard a number of
Snipe scaiping noisily as they rose and flew about
over the marshes. It was impossible to count them
but there must have been half-a-dozen or more
I caught a glympse of two flying together.
[margin]Wilson's
Snipe[/margin]
  Some young men who came down the Lake in
a canoe report seeing two large flocks of Scoters[.]
[margin]Scoters.[/margin]