Lake Umbagog.
1909.
July 14 [June 14, 1909]
(No 13)
I felt sure that it must have stooped at some prey among
the driftwood & also that it had alighted there. Just as it
appeared the mother Whistler redoubled her outcry and actually
flew to meet it passing out of my view around the tree
where I could hear her thrashing the water with her wings
and shrieking louder than ever. Half a minute later she
came flying towards the boat and dropped into the water
just outside the trees. Among their stems I now saw several
of the ducklings swimming from one driftwood cove to
another with flattened heads & bodies, occasionally diving.
One after another came in view until I had counted 
the total number, eleven, much to my relief. They continued
skulking and hiding out and the mother kept up the shrieking
cry which is evidently a note of warning to the young.
Some five minutes later the bird of prey rose from
behind the trunk where I had lost sight of it & flew