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Lake Umbaf^og, Ha me 



Oct 2G 



Clear and calm all day. .Started early and groped our v/av 

 up the Lake through a dense fog which lifted just as v/e oassea 

 the narrows. Wont ashore here and followed a lof^gmp road 

 into some fine mixed woods. Flushed a Grouse and missed. Heard 

 a Woodpecker tapping and invest i pat ing found and shot a fine 

 "'^^^ ^^!I2:111JL.^^B1^I1^BI}^ At Moose Point found five buffle- 

 heads divmp near shore. Tried to scull my bushed boat on to ^ 

 them, but failed. Afterwards fired two fl-inp shots at them 



Sculled to .wo Sheldrakes, but they flew pivinp me only a lonp ^ 

 and fruitless shot. As we were leavmp the landing this mo^n J? 

 mp seven Sheldrakes passed overhaed m the fog piymg me a 

 iine shot, but my guns were unloaded. At the outlet hearn a 



' ; olden Plover d i st i n ct 1 y at s u n s e t . — 



'"^^^^ «alm all day. Starting at ten o'c^cok in 

 the forenoon v/ent up into the sweat Cove where we spent the da-- ^ 

 Heard a flock of Blackbirds m the forest; landed and found 

 about fifty Qui seal us and twenty- five Scolesopharms. Next 



stalked seventeen Sheldrake; stopped two and one went off i' 

 wounded. Afterwards PUiiip drove him down past me and I killed 



him. Saw two Black ruck and got a long shot at a Whistler, '-ut ^ 

 missed. Blue Jays very numerous. ' ' ^ 



