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wood, elm and hemlock. Some of the 

 land was clear but most of my time 

 was spent in the wooded area. There 

 were also some burnt over areas 

 covered with a tangled mass of rasp- 

 berry and blackberry bushes whicli 

 hid many fallen, half-burned logs and 

 trees and made traveling in such 

 places full of unexpected falls. 



About a mile and half east of camp 

 was a small lake fed by springs and 

 with probably an under-ground outlet. 

 Still farther east, about three miles, 

 flowed the Wolf River. To find the 

 lake from the camp seemed eas.v but 

 to find the camp from the lake was 

 another thing, as we found out. The 

 first time we tried this we had to hike 

 to the river to get our bearings. About 

 a mile of this was through berry 

 bushes where we made a meal off the 

 last of the raspberries but left a good 

 deal of our clothes in exchange. We 

 reached camp about nine that night. 

 The second and last time the setting 

 sun found us still climbing hills ex- 

 pecting to see camp over each new 

 crest. Fortunately we had some 

 matches so built a large fire and spent 

 the night taking turns sleeping and 

 watching the fire while the Owls asked 

 us or each other "Who" we were. In 

 the morning after some more climbing, 

 we found an old, blazed section line, 

 which eventually took us to camp 

 about ten o'clock, hungry, but none the 

 worse for our adventure 



A list of birds seen follows: 



1. Ruffed Grouse. These birds 

 seemed rather plentiful, due, perhaps, 

 to the closed season which has been 

 and still is in effect. 



2. Cooper Hawk. Saw two of these 

 birds about a brush pile trying to 

 catch some White Throats. 



3. Red-shouldered Hawk. Quite a 

 few noted flying over the woods. 



4. Barred Owl. 



5. Screech Owl. 



6. Great Horned Owl. The Screech 

 Owl was only heard a few times but 

 the other two could be heard every 



night. It seemed as if five or six 

 would get together and each try to 

 out-do the other in making noise. 



7. Black-billed Cuckoo. A few seen 

 near the clearing. 



8. Hairy Woodpecker. 



9. Downy Woodpecker. Both very 

 common in the open and partly cleared 

 woods, especially about old brush 

 piles. 



10. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. Only 

 a few seen in the woods. 



11. Northern Pileated Woodpecker. 

 Saw many signs but few birds during 

 the first part of my stay. During the 

 later part, however, I sarw five or six 

 birds every day. Their call reminds 

 one of the Flickers only it is much 

 louder. The lumber-jacks call them 

 "Log cocks" and claim it a sign of 

 rain when they call. They did seem 

 to call more on cloudy days. 



12. Red-headed Woodpecker. 



13. Northern Flicker. Both common 

 in the clearings. None seen in the 

 woods, however. 



14. Ruby-throated Humming bird. 

 One seen around some wild trumpet 

 vine near the river. 



15. Kingbird. Common in the clear- 

 ings. 



16. Wood Pewee. A few seen in the 

 woods. 



17. Blue Jay. 



18. Crow. Fairly common every- 

 where. 



19. Meadowlark. 



20. Bronzed Grackle. A few noted 

 fiying over. Probably more common 

 in the clearings. 



21. American Crossbill I was rather 

 surprised to find a large fiock of these 

 birds about one of the camps. A num- 

 ber of times I was able to get within 

 a few feet of them and found many im- 

 mature birds. I could get no infor- 

 mation from the men about camp but 

 believe they may have bred there. 



22. Goldfinch. Common about the 

 weed grown clearings. 



23. Pine Siskin. Saw a number of 

 these birds. They were very tame 



