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Lake Umbagog.
1897
Sept. 16
  Forenoon clear and calm; afternoon cloudy with
fresh east wind & every indication of a gathering storm.
  Photographing during the forenoon with Gilbert, rowing
up past Pine Point & into Bandy Ledge Cove. No
birds of any particular interest. Purdie went across
the Carry to Middle Dam & back. He saw five
Partridges & a Parus hudsonicus.
[margin]Photograpginf
near camp[/margin]
[margin]P. hudsonicus[/margin]
" [Sept.] 17
  Cloudy with heavy rain in forenoon, the sky clearing
at sunset. Spent the day about camp making
no observations worth recording.
[margin]Pine Point[/margin]
" [Sept.] 18
  Forenoon cloudy & calm. Afternoon brilliantly clear
with strong W. wind.
  Sailing on the Lake most of the afternoon trying
a new canoe against some of the old ones.
Purdie & Will went to Errol in the forenoon &
did not get back until near sunset. They found
four young Surf Scoters in a flooded meadow just
above Errol Dam. Will taking them for Black Ducks
landed & stalked them killing one. The others
did not leave the meadow & getting the boat
he secured them all. It is indeed remarkable
that they should have chosen to alight in
such a small forest-encircled sheet of water
with the Lake so near at hand but I have
known them to be killed in the Androscoggin
before this.
[margin]Surf Scoters
in a
small pond
near Errol
Dam[/margin]