Fallen Leaf Lake near Lake Tahoe 



Field Trips at Fallen Leaf Lake 



Mary E. Delport 

 1601 Oxford St., Berkley, Calif. 



Imagine yourself bird hunting in the high Sierras under the 

 leadership of an ornithologist sent there for the express purpose of 

 adding this attractive feature to your sumjn.er vacation! To the 

 true nature lover this sounds like "such stuff as dreams are made 

 of." We have had vacations — ^m.any of them, of the stereotyped 

 kind; hiked in the woods, climbed mountains, cooked out of 

 doors, slept under the stars; in a word, we have accomplished 

 all the wonderful feats that the time and the place have inspir- 

 ed. But how seldom have we actually included in the glories of 

 the wilderness, an intimate acquaintance with the wild-folk that 

 contribute so largely to making that same wilderness so attrac- 

 tive to us. To the large majority, birds are just birds in the 

 abstract sense, and they are nothing more and to single them 

 out, study their characteristics or their songs, rarely ever occurs 

 to us. 



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