Lake Umbagog journals, 1871-1916 (inclusive)
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Haliaetus leucocephalus. Lake Umbagog, Maine. 1894. We paddled through Leonard's Pond where we saw two Eagles Sept. 9. (one a fine old bird). One of the Eagles (as we supposed- we did not actually see him in the act) kept uttering a shrill squealing not unlike that of a Duck Hawk but slower and more disconnected. Sept. 26. It was very cold when I sat waiting for Jim Bernier on an exposed point near the ead of the island in Leonard's Pond, but I was entertained by watching two Bald Eagles, one young the other a fine adult bird. The former was at first perched on a stub eating a large fish. After it had finished its meal it flew to some green white pines on the north shore of the north channel where the old bird had gone to roost a short time before, both birds alighting in the same tree about mid- way from the ground and top and among dense foliage. The young Eagle squealed loudly as it flew to roost. 1896. Along the Androscoggin we saw two fine adult Eagles, one Sept. I. a very small, the other an unusually big one. An Eagle when flying carries the fore part of the body raised appreciably-ie; the central line or long axis of the body and neck is not hori- zontal-and the neck looks much longer than in any of the other of the Reptores. By these characteristics it may be most easi- ly distinguished form an Osprey when flying at a distance. 74