many parts of the Northwoods, their fresh works 

 can be seen, and seeing it one can not help but admire 

 the work and the industry and the instinct of the 

 Beaver People. 



NORTHWOODS BIRDS YOU WILL 

 WANT TO KNOW 



Certain bird calls and bird songs are inseparably 

 linked in my memory with camps and tramps and 

 canoe trips in the wilderness. 



Nature seems to have created the loon to make the 

 wild places wilder. The long drawn call at night, 

 the broken laughter on the wing, you will never for- 

 get. Loons and grebes are the most aquatic of all 

 our birds. I fancy both would have lost their legs if 

 they did not need them for swimming. As far as I 

 know, the loon goes on land only for the purpose of 

 nesting. Its real element is the water. Here it dives 

 and swims in a way to baffle all enemies. 



Loons live on small fish, for which they dive to 

 very considerable depths. I have a photograph of a 

 loon that became entangled in a fishermen's net at a 

 depth of sixty feet. When you camp and travel in 

 the Northwoods, do not shoot at the loons with fire- 

 arms. It will require more skillful hunting to take 

 home with you good photographs of the great diver, 

 its nest or its young. 



The call of the loon is one of the wildest sounds 

 in nature. After the silence of night has fallen over 

 lakes and forests, you may hear it like a long drawn 

 out wail or cry, having an almost human tone. Per- 

 haps it comes from a lake a mile away, perhaps it is 

 uttered as the bird wings it's way over the tree tops. 



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