2 THE AUDUBON ~BYU Dh eaes 
to the shore. You can hear the birds of the fields singing across the water 
in competition with the warblers and thrushes of the forest. 
The post office address is Medomak, but if you arrive by train, you 
will leave the Maine Central Railroad from Boston at Newcastle and the 
adjoining town of Damariscotta. Each session opens on a Friday. You 
will spend the preceding night in one of the charming tourist homes in 
the lovely old colonial town of Damariscotta. Friday morning the campers 
meet at the Riverview Restaurant. While you are eating breakfast Mr. 
Buchheister will pin a tag on you identifying you to the other campers. 
Soon you are off in a fleet of cars for the camp dock, about 25 miles distant, 
and the fun is under way. The countryside is beautiful, and Mr. Buch- 
heister, or whoever your driver is, will call your attention to every bird- 
eall along the way. For the next fourteen days your eyes and ears and 
wits will be alerted every minute. 
By Friday afternoon you have been assigned your quarters in one- of 
several dormitories, all the details of registration are out of the way, and 
you are ready for a “shake-down” cruise through Muskongus Bay. On 
this cruise you will see harbor seals sunning on the rocks. You’ll see black 
guillemots, great black-backed gulls, laughing gulls, all three of the scoters, 
and perhaps Arctic terns and eider ducks. Allan Cruickshank directs bird 
study. Most of you probably know him as a photographer and lecturer 
for the National Audubon Society. He is also a superb teacher, and his 
high spirits contribute immensely to the gayety of the camp. By the end 
of this first trip he and his assistant, Joseph Cadbury, will have hammered 
into your head the difference in posture between the cormorant and the 
loon as they ride on the water at a distance; the flight outlines of the 
osprey and the great blue heron; the distinctions between the scoters; and 
many other points of identification. 
Saturday morning the program is under way, and you will have not 
one moment for boredom. Every camper is required to take bird study 
and nature activity. These classes alternate in the mornings from 8:30 to 
11:50. In addition you have a choice of studying plant life, marine life, 
or insect life. Each of these groups makes a field trip every afternoon 
from 2:30 to 5:30. One all-day sea trip, and two or three half-day trips 
in the boats are scheduled for each session. The “free” evenings are 
devoted to reading in the excellent library, or developing some project in 
the workshop. On alternate evenings there are one-hour lectures on natural 
history and conservation subjects, illustrated with colored moving pictures 
and slides. If the stars are shining, a telescope is brought out on the lawn, 
and you look at Jupiter’s moons, the double star in the handle of the Big 
Dipper, the moon’s craters. On Sundays there is a picnic and bonfire, and 
one other night there is a lobster feast on the rocks. As the sun-set fades 
and the fire leaps and crackles, Mr. Cruickshank leads us in singing the old 
familiar group songs, with hilarious versions of his own, and Joe Cadbury 
teaches us some beautiful spirituals. 
If you are interested in birds above everything else you may be dis- 
appointed to find that you cannot go on a bird trip every day. The camp 
staff believes that birds are only one part of the total nature picture, and 
