Lake Umbagog.
Lakeside & Cambridge River Marshes
1896
October 3
  Cloudy with N.E. wind and fine rain in the
afternoon.
  A flock of Scoters was seen from the house this
morning & immediately after breakfast I went in
pursuit of them & found them just beyond B. Point.
There were thirteen birds in the flock, the majority
old male Surf Scoters. They rose at fully 100 yards.
& realighted near Great Island but I did not follow
them.
[margin]Surf Scoters
in the Lake[/margin]
  As I entered the river a flock of 12 Sheldrake were fishing
on the further side of a marshy island but they saw me
& flew. A little further on I came upon three Winter
Yellow legs but they proved to be very shy & I got only a
long & fruitless shot at them. There was a high
Grass-bird with them. Soon afterwards a mixed flock
of Grass birds & Bonaparte's Sandpipers flew over - about
a dozen birds in all but just how many of each kind
I could not tell.
[margin]Gr. Yellow legs[/margin]
[margin]Pectoral S.
Bonaparte S.[/margin]
  A number of Herring Gulls were flying about and soon
after I reached Upton a Carolina Grebe appeared in the
pool just below the Lake House. I was watching it
with my glass and admiring its graceful movements &
suddenly the report of a gun rang out, a charge of
shot tore up the water, & my poor little Grebe turned
belly up and floated dead. Baker, who is staying
at the Lake House, had crept up behind a cluster
of bushes & fired the fatal shot. I fear he will
make no use of the bird
[margin]Herring Gulls
Carolina Grebe[/margin]