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Lake Umbagog.
Pine Point
1898.
September 25 (Sunday)
  Cloudy with E. wind.
  At about seven o'clock this morning the
mysterious Owl that we hear at Pine Point
only at wide intervals began honking on the 
hemlock knoll behind the camp keeping it up
for several minutes and then moving further 
off to the eastward. He did not hoot at
all on this occasion.
[margin]Great Gray (?)
Owl visits
Pine Point again.[/margin]
  Melvin went to Lakeside this afternoon.
" [September] 26  
  Morning cloudy, afternoon sunny & warm.
  Early in the forenoon a flock of seven Ducks
which we all took to be Scoters were discovered swimming
in the Lake about midway between Pine Point
and the Outlet. I paddled out to them getting
within 150 yds. when they flew & I saw that 
they were Greater Scaups.
[margin]Greater Scaup
Ducks.[/margin]
  Baker returned from B. Point this afternoon
with a fine lot of trout. He reports seeing a
flock of about twenty large black Ducks, which
Ellsworth (the grinder) says were Butter-bellied 
Scoters in B. Pond this morning.
[margin]A flock of
Scoters in 
B. Pond. [/margin]
   At Upton, Melvin started 8 Woodcock & a Snipe
(the latter in our older run). He also saw a
remarkable number of Flickers (400 or 500 he says)
scattered everywhere in the fields and woods. 
[margin]Great flight
of Colaptes.[/margin] 