-May 15- Spent most of the morning chasing a yellow billed loon around the harbor. We couldn't make him dive until he got good and ready. Some times the bullets would almost hit him but still he would not go down so he stayed ahead of us all the time In the afternoon I went upon the hill to see if I could get a grouse that was rooting. I found the tree that he was in but that was as near as I could get. -May 16- We went out after a loon this morning and got one. It was just the common loon but he led us a good chase. Littlejohn kept putting the bullets from the old Sharps so close to his head every time it came out of water that he soon got winded and we got him. I went up and dug out a chickadee nest in the afternoon but it was just ready. Got a grouse also.