Lake Umbagog
1900.
Sept. 21
(No 2) 
very many Chickadees, a least a dozen Golden-crest Kinglets, a
Water Wren, 3 Brown Creepers, 1 Canada & 1 White-breasted Nuthatch,
a number of Warblers among which I recognized only one, a
Dendroica striata, Robins, Blue Jays, 2 Hudsonian Chickadees, several
Downy Woodpeckers, 2 Partridges, 2 Bitterns, a Great Blue Heron,
A Wilson's Snipe and a Black Duck. Strange to say not a single 
Kingfisher was met with.
Trip up
Cambridge R.
Small birds 
seen there. 
 Partridges, Herons,
Snipe, Ducks.
  The Snipe was standing on a sandy bank sparsely
covered with short green grass. He was evidently sunning himself
and every now & then he closed his eyes & took a brief nap.
Jim paddled thrice to within less than eight feet of him & I
exposed three plates at him. He paid little attention to
us at first but as we were returning from the third trip 
to the shelter of a bank where I changed my plate holders
he suddenly took alarm, flew across the river, ran up
under a shelving bank & squatted there. After this he
kept well ahead of us flying, skulking under overhanging
banks & tufts of grass & finally taking a long flight out
of our sight through the woods. While I was photographing
him he squatted once for a moment but most of his
time stood in much the same attitude as a Sandpiper.
Wilson's 
Snipe
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