DELAWARE VALLEY ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB 11 



mountain some 1200 feet above the valley, which is itself 600 

 feet above sea level. This we ascended the following morning, 

 finding nothing unusual except the unexpected presence of the 

 Worm-eating Warbler, but, losing our way, we crossed com- 

 pletely over the knob and descended through a deciduous wood 

 sprinkled with hemlocks to a blind valley, known as Horse 

 Valley down which flows the Conodoguenet Creek. In the 

 woods we were surprised to find Blackburnian Warblers while 

 out in the open along the bushy fence rows were Bewick's 

 Wrens, dodging along ahead of us with much tail action. 

 This is the characteristic species of this region where it was first 

 discovered by Spencer F. Baird on his collecting trips from 

 Carlisle seventy-five years before. 



A long tramp northward along the valley and a steep climb 

 over the mountain at Freestone, the first pass, brought us out at 

 Metal whence we worked our way back to Ft. Loudon. 



Having now connected our exploration with the well worked 

 country of Baird, we felt that our task was completed and 

 we started that evening for Carlisle and the next day returned 

 home via Harrisburg and Lancaster. 



Species Observed 



1. Black Duck, June 18. One noted along west branch of 

 Conococheague Creek below Mercersburg. 



2. Great Blue Heron, June 18. One noted along west branch 

 of Conococheague Creek below Mercersburg. 



3. Black-crowned Night Heron, June 18. One noted along 

 west branch of Conococheague Creek below Mercersburg. 



4. Little Green Heron, June 18, One noted along west 

 branch of Conococheague Creek below Mercersburg. 



5. Spotted Sandpiper. Fairly common along streams and 

 meadows in Adams Co. Noted at Greencastle on June 17. 

 Not observed on June 18 on trip from Greencastle to Ft. 

 Loudon. Two observed on June 19 at Fort Loudon. 



6. Killdeer. Fairly common from Abbottsford to Fairfield 

 on June 16. Not noted from Fairfield to Greencastle on 17th. 

 Two or three noted from Greencastle to Ft. Loudon on 18th. A 

 few observed at Ft. Loudon along west branch of Conococheague 

 Creek on 19th. 



