TRMESEAGULO.UsB OMUN CBU Ie EsichN 17 
Photograph by F. R. Dickinson 
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER 
Rutfed Grouse, Ovenbird and Black-and-white and Golden-winged War- 
blers, characteristic birds of the district. One of the neighboring lakes has 
harbored a pair of Loons every year, including 1934, and in most years | 
have been able to discover the nest or to see the downy young. On the 
Little Muskegon River, in the eastern part of the county, a Bald Eagle's 
nest was to be seen up to 1929 when too much newspaper publicity drove 
the birds away. They had persisted until the last of the tall white pines, 
in which hitherto they had nested, had fallen, and, in the final year of 
their appearance they used a scrub oak on the brow of the river gorge. 
What has teen written above will sufhce to give a general idea of a 
region in which the following more or less significant observations were 
made in the season of 1934. 
A great Blue Heron, standing motionless and completely exposed in 
shallow water and intent on securing its prey, apparently did not see me 
as I approached slowly along the shore. I seated myself on a log and 
watched it. Now it seemed to be aware of me. Slowly, almost impercep- 
tibly, the head and neck, at first upright, began to take a lateral inclination 
until they were almost at right angle to the vertical. ‘he result was the 
verisimilitude of a crooked branch of driftwood. 
