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at Green. Baby tree swallows perch on the fence posts, resting from their 

 first attempts at flight. Barn swallows and purple martins are equally 

 abundant. At times I caught glimpses of bank and rough- winged swal- 

 lows skimming over. 



Flycatchers are in evidence, kingbird, phoebe, pewee, alder, least 

 and olive sided. Nighthawks patrol the beach and the adjacent region 

 each evening. All these thrive on the mosquitoes which are plentiful 

 in late June and July. 



The cut over area with uprooted and fallen logs, with a wealth of 

 strawberries, red raspberries, red elder, blackberries and blueberries, was 

 a bird paradise. This is the home of the white-throated sparrows and 

 their chorus was heard by day and night. They were friendly, too, and 

 often sang from the top of a balsam beside Cedar Lodge. Lincoln 

 sparrows preferred the most impenetrable haunts of uprooted trees. 

 Dozens of them were in song at one time yet most careful searching 

 could not locate a single one. The song is musical, varied and prolonged. 

 An unusual melody for a sparrow. It required a month of the most 

 careful stalking to be sure of its identity. In full song, perched on a 

 pile of brush, on the edge of the dense hemlock-maple forest I finally 

 met it face to face. I was walking on the Greenwood lumber tracks 

 and saw it but a moment. In the heavy timber they sing on every side 

 but are always out of sight. 



Warblers were hard to identify. This is the home of the house wrens 

 and they patrol the' summer cottages so vigilantly that woe betides 

 warblers or other feathered friends that make an approach. House 

 wrens nest in every possible locality. Patris carina (father's boat) was 

 left on the shore two days and a huge nest was built in it. A redstart 

 approached one day but was quickly dispelled by the wren patrol. 

 Maryland yellowthroat, Canadian, black-throated blue, ovenbird, and 

 Northern water thrush were listed, and other unnamed songs were heard 

 in the thickets. 



Our four common woodpeckers were in evidence. Traces of the 

 pileated were seen in the heavy timber near White Pine and Union Bay. 

 In. returning from the lumber camp on a flat car with the lumberjacks I 

 discovered the huge pileated drilling the bark of a large tree. My first 

 pileated! 



Loons, spotted sandpipers and young, killdeers, herring gulls, great 

 blue heron and crows were beach companions. The song of the red- 

 eyed vireo and flocks of cedar waxwings were always present. Cat- 

 bird, brown thrasher, chipping sparrow, purple finch, junco, hawks, 

 bald eagle, mourning dove, bronze grackle, cowbird, red-wing and 

 chickadee were listed. Thrushes were all observed but the hermit. 

 The wood thrush is associated with the dark white-cedar bog where the 

 large showy orchis blooms, and with the mottled sun and shade of the 

 aspen-birch-bracken pioneer forest, Dense thickets and high perches 



