Lake Umbagog.
1909.
June 14 [June 14, 1909]
(No 2)
  A female Whistler followed by either 11 or 12 young
We counted them many times after this was written & made sure there were 11
(it was difficult to count them accurately) entered our sheltered 
little cove at 8.30 this morning. She was a large bird with
light brown head and entirely black or blackish bill. The young
were about the size of newly-hatched Plymouth Rock chickens
and certainly not more than a week old, if as much as that.
When I first saw them they were about 60 yards from the
house boat, swimming in single file, but literally touching
one another, in the wake of the mother, the leading young bird
being perhaps two feet behind her. In this order the little family
party cruised back and forth in open water for several minutes
the mother bird keeping her head and neck stretched up and
evidently devoting her entire attention to the house boat
which she seemed to regard with not a little suspicion.
But as I had called my two men into the cabin and
as everything remained quiet for awhile the mother Whistler
Whistler
&
young