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SUMMER 



You will see them, and you will ask yourself, as 

 I asked myself, "Where is their home? Where do 

 they nest?" I hope you will also have a chance to 



answer 

 the question 

 some time 

 for yourself, as 

 I had a chance to 

 answer it for myself 

 recently, out on the 

 Three-Arch Rocks, in the 

 Pacific, just off the coast of Oregon. 



I visited the rocks to see all their multitudinous 

 wild life, their gulls, cormorants, murres, guille- 

 mots, puffins, oyster-catchers, and herds of sea-lions, 

 but more than any other one thing I wanted to 

 see the petrels, Kaeding's petrels, that nest on the 

 top of Shag Rock, the outermost of the three rocks 

 of the Reservation. 



No, not merely to see the petrels : what I really 

 wished to do was to stay all night on the storm- 

 swept peak in order to hear the petrels come back 

 to their nests on the rock in the dusk and dark. 

 My friend Finley had done it, years before, on this 

 very rock. On the steep north slope of the top he 

 had found a safe spot between two jutting crags, 



