Happy indeed is the naturalist: to him the seasons come round like old friends; to him the 

 birds sing; as he walks along, the flowers stretch out from the hedges or look out from the 

 ground, and as each year fades away, he looks back on a fresh store of happy memories. 



Sir John Lubbock. 



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The Guide to Nature. 



EDUCATION AND RECREATION 



Vol. I 



JUNE, 1908 



No. 3 



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A Night in the Maine Woods. 



SOME OBSERVATIONS OF ANIMAL AND BIRD LIFE AT LAKE WEBB, WELD, ME. 



By Harry G. Higbee, 



Hyde Park, Mass. 



»( )i JT eighteen or twenty 

 miles southwest of the 

 famous Rangeley lakes, 

 lies a beautiful stretch of 

 water six miles long and 

 from one to three miles 

 wide, known as Lake 

 Webb. This lake has 

 an elevation of about 

 8oo feet, and is set in a 

 surrounded bv mountain 



affording some of the most pic- 



basin entirely 



ranges 



turesque scenery to be found on the 



American continent. It is fifteen miles 



from the railroad, but the village of 



Weld is settled snugly down among the 



hills on the east shore, with Mt. Blue 

 rising up in the background to a height 

 of about 3,400 feet. 



Being surrounded as it is by moun- 

 tains, and with forests on one side, 

 stretching away for miles toward the 

 great northern wilderness, and with the 

 village and farm lands on the other, this 

 locality is an exceptionally good one for 

 the variety which it offers to the lover of 

 nature, and for the study of animal life 

 in its natural environment. In this vi- 

 cinity, during the months of July, Au- 

 gust and September, I observed eighty- 

 seven varieties of birds, besides various 

 other forms of animal life. The streams, 



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