Lake Umbagog.
1909
June 14 [June 14, 1909]
(No 7)
they busied themselves among some floating logs & in
the open water on our side of these for perhaps half an hour
while I sat in a reclining chair in deck keeping them under
my glass. It seemed incredible that birds so p[?]ed
and ordinarily so wary how could have so quickly become
so very tame & confiding. When one of the men walked
along the deck they merely retreated a few yards & over
Jim paddled a boat ashore without driving them much
further back among the stubs. Although not apparently
playful the young were as active & energetic as so many
ants diving incessantly for food and scurrying to & fro.
Whenever they came to a floating log they would spring
directly from the water to its top, a total distance of
perhaps a foot & a vertical ride of 5 or 6 inches. They
moved over logs and drift wood as nimbly as mice
sometimes by running, sometimes by succession of frog-like