CANOE TRIP UP SUDBURY RIVER 
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ril 25 At 3.30 A.M. Bolles roused me by shaking the 
tent of my canoe. There was a faint indication of dawn 
in the East but the moonlight had hardly begun to pale. 
A Brown Thrasher was singing gloriously on Fairhaven HilL 
and a Song Sparrow soon joined in, followed by a Robin, 
a Spotted Sandpiper, a Whippoorwill and a Swamp Sparrow. 
These were all the species heard during the first half 
hour. 
At 4 A.M. we started back from camp passing 
through a dense wood of young pines and coming out in an 
open field. The moon hung low in the west but its light 
was still more dominant than the ever growing daylight. 
The sky to the sou^h and east was cloudless and spangled 
with stars, but in the north it was filled with a leaden 
mass of clouds. These rolled steadily and rapidly over¬ 
head, blotting out the moon and the rosy tints where the 
sun was about to appear. The air was sharp and the grass 
white with hoar-frost. We had to keep moving to overcome 
the chill that despite our warm clothing 
More birds singing. A Ruffled Grouse drumming, a Grass 
Finch, Red-wings (4.20), Chickadees (4.21) Field Sparrow, 
Crows, Hermit Thrust (harsh note only), Chippy(4.27) 
Mniotilta01ack and White Creepejt (4.35), Pine Warblers, 
Cow-bird, Flickers (4.49), Yellow-rump (4.50), Blue Jay 
(4.55), Rusty Blackbird, Bank Swallows, and Ruby-crowned 
