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few feet of their tents or their bungalows they would find so many 

 friends nodding cheerfully at them if they stopped and looked. 



As my specialty is birds, moths and butterflies, I was very much 

 disappointed to find so few birds, due to the havoc of the Gipsy 

 Moth caterpillar. The eight weeks that I was there I could find 

 only 43 different birds. 



We were very fortunate to have several birds build their nests 

 right near the main bungalow. 



Within 20 feet of the bungalow Mr. and Mrs. King raised their 

 family of four. The parents were very conspicuous as the flag pole 

 was a short distance from their nest. Those that are familiar with 

 the characteristics of the kingbird, know why they spent so much 

 time on top of the flag pole before they visited the nest. I cannot 

 remember a time that we had drill but that one of them would be 

 perched on top of the flag pole. They never forgot to stop, look 

 and listen, watching us as though reviewing our progress, then 

 dart to report to their family of four. One morning I missed 

 them from the pole but during the day I discovered that they had 

 moved their family a short distance away to a scrub oak. There 

 they were all lined up on a branch. The four close together line 

 formed often as we were during drill, when the following command 

 was given. "Right about face." One evidently hadn't heard the 

 command. They remained in that tree five days. 



I had never been fortunate enough before to find a peewee's 

 nest. I considered it a rare find and treat to discover a family 

 of them near the main road leading out of camp, a very short 

 distance from the main btmgalow and near the stable of the riding 

 horses. Peewees are also found more in high dry woods where 

 they build their little moss-covered houses on horizontal boughs 

 at quite a height from the ground. This one was near the road 

 leading from Senior to Junior Camp, on a horizontal branch about 

 eight feet high. The girls could climb up into the tree to see the 

 baby birds. The question that bothered us was how could these 

 baby birds stay in such a small nest. They were so crowded and 

 seemed to hang over the nest, which is a wonderful creation, 

 composed of plant fibres, quilted together and ornamented with 

 lichens. 



I was also keenly disappointed in not finding, any niglit flying 

 moths — not one did I see — even the butterflies were cons])icuous 

 by their absence, just a few mourning cloaks, cabbage, and red 

 admirals. 



