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Lake Umbagog.
Pine Point.
1897.
Sept. 14
  A gloomy, depressing day with chill N.W. wind and
frequent light showers. The clouds broke away late
in the afternoon, however, and we had a glorious
sunset.
  I spent the day about camp cutting down a
number of small birches for exercise and developing
a number of photographs. At evening three of us
went over to the flooded marshes again, Purdie &
Will in the larger boat, I in the little gray canoe
in which I sailed both ways.
[margin]Outlet Marshes[/margin]
  The water has risen so high that only the tips of the
taller grasses are now exposed. The Ducks have evidently
about given up coming to this marsh at evening.
None over seen to-night but I heard one squawking
in the direction of Moose Point. Several Great Blue
Herons were calling and flying about and a Great
Horned Owl alighted on the top of a tall stub
near Leonard's Pond sitting there for ten or fifteen
minutes forming a distinct silhouette against the
afterglow in the west. I could see him raise & 
depress the ear tufts & bob his head up & down. Either
this or another bird had been hooting in the
distance a short time before.
[margin]Ducks[/margin]
[margin]Herons[/margin]
[margin]Great Horned
Owl
perched on 
a stub in 
Leonard's P.[/margin]