Lake Umbagog
1900
Sept.8
(no.3)
like that of wind in pines and a succession of loud 
splashes as their heavy bodies strike the water. After
alighting they frequently thrash the water with their wings
and for minutes at a time the marsh fairly rings 
with this loud quacking of the ducks and the wheezy,
asthmatic calls of the drakes.
Evening at 
Moose Point. 
Black Ducks
  Other characteristic sounds of the Moose Point marsh at 
evening are the rasping scaipe of Snipe, the nasal
penetrating hoink or oink of the Blue Herons,the
squealing of wood ducks,& the clear silvery whistle of wings
made by all these waterfowl & when the air is still
often audible hundreds of yards away. Then in 
the background as it was nearly always at measured
intervals the solemn hoo, hoo-hoo, hoo, hoo of the
Great-Horned Owl. Altogether the marsh is an attractive 
place at which to spend an hour or so of a calm 
September evening.
Sounds of 
the marshes 
at evening
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