Lake Umbagog.
1903.
June 15
(No 2)
on skimming the female bird whose ovaries contained no
remaining ovule larger than a no. six shot.
  As soon as I had finished my task I had a
hurried breakfast and immediately afterwards took the
steamer "Aziscohos" up the Lake. We went first to
Sunday Cove and next to Errol where I disembarked
with my luggage- and had dinner at Allen's.
Up the Lake by Steamer.
  During the passage of the Lake I saw a young (ie
brown) Bald Eagle, a Sheldrake (flying past Pine Point)
and three Terns flying about in company between
the Outlet and Pine Point. The last-named birds
were on wing over the same stretch of water when our
boat returned from Sunday Cove. I saw them sweep
down to the surface repeatedly no doubt to pick up
small dead fish. Once when they came within 100 yards
I made out very distinctly the dark, almost sooty,
cast of the underparts which distinguishes S. paradisea 
from S. hirundo and this inclined me to refer them
all without much hesitation, to the former species.
Eagle Sheldrake
Arctic Terns.
  I saw two Bronzed Grackles in Sunday Cove and five or six
more at the Outlet but no Swallows in either of these
places. Nearly all the stubs that formerly were scattered
over the marshes near the Outlet have been cut down by
the river drivers but those between the mouth of the
Megalloway & Leonard's Pond still remain standing.
Stubs nearly all gone.
  Pine Point looked wholly unchanged and I was glad
to see that the fine tall pines that border its southern
shores have all escaped injury by storm or axe.
Pine Point
  The Davis Bros. who now run Lakeside Hotel, have taken
a lease of the Point and they tell me that it is their
intention to preserve my camp & its surroundings just as I left it.