if he wants it. There are no charges of any kind, and 
every man uses the camp as his own. 
We keep a log book at our camp and we find that on a 
certain date a member with his wife and children spent 
the night at camp and in the evening they saw a Bittern 
pump just across the river. We find that a pair of Prairie 
Horned Larks reared a brood in the field behind the Camp. 
We have records of Mourning Doves for every month since 
we bought the Camp. We have one or two to ten or twenty 
members, their families and their friends every Saturday 
and Sunday. We drop the axe to watch a hawk or dash 
out to see if the Purple Martin overhead is really a martin 
or a swallow. We do all the things that we hate to do at 
home and call it fun. We argue, discuss and study birds, 
and we are “little boys.” 
We have increased the field work of our members because 
with “a place to go” it is much easier to go. We have in¬ 
creased the number of records because with a place to local¬ 
ize our observations we are more easily reminded of things 
we failed to write down at the time. We have improved 
our accuracy because we have frequently a number of com¬ 
petent observers together at one time, and above all we 
have greatly broadened our acquaintanceship with each 
other because we have a common meeting place outside of 
our formal club meetings. 
These things have proved so much worth while that we 
who have our Camp on the upper reaches of the river now 
look forward to the time when we will have another “place 
to go” on the dunes at Ipswich or at Plum Island. 
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