Lake Umbagog.
1909
July 14 [June 14, 1909]
(No. 15) 
during a period of two or three minutes when the 
young spread out over a space covered with floating grass
torn up by the Muskrats and swam back and forth
through it very rapidly carrying their heads low and
apparently dabbling among the grass with their bills as
if sucking food in this way after the manner of
surface feeding Ducks. Another matter that interested
me was the fact that one of the Muskrats appeared
at this time and swam past the brood within a
few yards without causing the least apparent alarm
either to them or their mother.
  About five o'clock the Whistler family went out
through the open channel again & that was the
last I saw of them to-day.
  The preceding notes were written at various times through
the day, many of them while the things they describe
had only just happened.