Lake Umbagog.
1909.
July 14 [June 14, 1909]
(No 14)
off over the trees. As it did so I saw that it was
a female Broad-winged Hawk, no doubt one of the
pair which are frequenting our cove. I believe that the
Whistler's alarm at its appearance was wholly uncalled for
and that it merely stooped at and caught some
sluggish spawning Toad. Certainly it must have made
a kill and eaten its prey on the drift wood behind
the big tree trunk (it had nothing in its talons when it flew away),otherwise it would not have been 
likely to remain there for more than five minutes.
At all events it did not get one of the ducklings
for we counted eleven of them many times this
forenoon and many times again after the Hawk
had gone. As soon as it disappeared the brood reassembled
and with their mother spent nearly half an hour
swimming about within less than 20 yards of the
house boat. On this occasion I saw nothing new except