Lake Umbagog.
1909.
June 5 [June 5, 1909]
(No 2)
  The Bronzed Grackles nesting on my island do not appear
to agree with Dr. Fisher in considering the Broad-Winged Hawk
an inoffensive bird for I saw four or five of them leave their
rookery to-day to pressure one of the Hawks across the Lake
with cries of indignation and alarm. They pressed him hard
at one time forcing him to hoist and double as they rose
above and darted down at him in quick succession striking with
their bills at his head and back.
Bronzed
Grackles
mob a
Broad wing
Hawk
  The only Duck of any kind that I have seen here as yet
this spring is a [female] Whistler which is haunting the flooded
meadows near the Lake House and probably nesting in [?] [?]
stub. I started her yesterday not far from the mouth of P[?]
Brook, when she uttered a guttural krur-krur-krur-krur
as she flew off. To-day she appeared a number of times
in the cove near my boat house flying about in silence,
now high now low, twisting and doubling very like a Snipe.
During one of these flights she passed close over (certainly not
more than 10 feet above) the smoke stack of the new steam
mill from which a thick column of smoke was issuing at
the time. She alighted once within seventy yards of the
house boat. It is not improbable that she has young just
out of the nest for she seemed anxious & excited. The
motor boats are now so numerous about the Lake that
the water fowl are constantly disturbed by the pop-pop ing
of their [?] engines.
Whistler
Flight Call
  Gilbert saw a Partridge fly out from the woods near
the mouth of Stony Brook and alight on a floating log at
the edge of a floated thicket. He thought it came there to drink.
It remained their only a few seconds when it flew back into the
woods. This happened last evening, after sunset.
Partridge
on floating log