Sept 5 - 1874 291 Sept. 5 Clear cool & fine day Took the boat up lake in the morning and got off at the outlet. As I was arranging things on my boat a large trout swam repeatedly near me taking each time a dead moth, members of which lay dead on the surface. Paddling into the pine protection and that nearly the edge of the marsh for snipe but could find none although fresh "pigeons" were in abundance. Saw here only a few rusty blackbirds & a brace of dusky ducks. Left tried downwards ground but found no tracks. Saw a large osprey stoop down within 50 yds of me and seize a chub, making nearly as much noise as the fall of a large plank would have done. After eating lunch sailed down the river to within a mile of Ernst when I was taken on board the steamer. Saw annual large flocks of warblers & fired a single shot at a merganser but missed. Saw two ibis, humifrons at the outlet, May. Cochlearius is also still here in moderate abundance. The bulk of the warblers have I think left. Sunday Sept. 6 Cloudy & warm. Spent the A.M. reading. In P.M. wrote letters. The maple on the river are fast turning crimson and the frost has touched the furs a little but the woods are as green as ever. Sept. 7 Cloudy. Rained most of P.M. Off after breakfast with S. taking the steam road across the farm & thence through a wood path to Ellinwoods, Saw but very few birds. I