Lake Umbagog.
1909.
June 20 [June 20, 1909]
  A warm day sunny for the most part but with
clouds driving across the sky before a violent S.W. wind.
  With Chapman & Nichols I went up into the Sweat Cove
this forenoon in Alva's motor boat. We saw 5 Great Blue
Herons there but no Ducks nor Eagles nor Fish Hawks.
Landed twice once at the head of Great Island, once
on the little island in the [?] where I found a Black
Ducks nest in 1897. There is some fine spruce and hemlock
timber left on Great Island and here we found birds
very numerous especially Bay-breasts & Blackburnians. 
Where the conifers there have been cut, as if the case nearly
everywhere else about the lake, there are but few birds of any kind.
Great Island
  At evening Chapman & I walked to the Tyler Bog. As
we were following a wood road over the crest of the hill on
the old Abbott farm we started a [female] Woodcock from the
path. She flew only a few yards & then began beating her
wings on the ground at the same time keeping up a low
mewing not unlike that of a Cat bird. This was evidently
designed to attract our notice to her & to lead us away from
her young. We stood still & she soon ceased fluttering & began to
run about uttering a wholly different sound, very duck-like
in character & closely resembling the low conversational
quacking that Black Ducks make when a number are fishing
in company. This we interpreted as a note of warning to the young
bidding them keep still. We could find only one of them, a
bird as large as a Bluebird still covered with down but with
the wing quills sprouting. It sat on the ground in the path with head
& neck up like a bird on the nest a marvellously beautiful little
creature. Not a muscle did it move when we stooped low over it.
We kept motionless not far off for several minutes but the mother
would not come to it. When we returned 20 minutes later
it and the mother had disappeared.
Woodcock
& young