THE BIRDS OF SOMERSET HILLS 49 



to find birds, for I have been at this 

 place in every month except February, 

 at most times of the day, varying from 

 nine in the morning to half-past six 

 at night. In most months I have gone 

 at least six times for the last two years. 

 I have been there in a heavy snowstorm, 

 with the thermometer at 20 degrees, and 

 at the hottest part of the hottest sum- 

 mer days, with the thermometer at 98 

 degrees. I have been there when the 

 trees are opening their buds in spring, 

 and during the autumn when the woods 

 are colored by red, yellow and purple 

 leaves. Notwithstanding the variety of 

 time, season or weather, I have always 

 found that there were more birds there 

 than at any other place that I know 

 of in the territory covered by this 

 book. 



I shall never forget one day in the fall 

 of 1910. It was at sunset. Looking 



