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should receive no more emphasis than any other aspect of nature study. 
The energetic bird chaser can get up at 5 o’clock in the morning instead of 
6:30, and walk in the spruce forest back of the camp with other enthusiastic 
birders. Within five minutes walk of the buildings you will find the follow- 
ing birds nesting: song sparrow, junco, chickadee, golden-crowned kinglet, 
red-breasted nuthatch, olive-back and hermit thrushes, osprey, and parula, 
myrtle, magnolia, blackburnian, and black-throated green warblers. Far- 
ther distant from the camp, in the heart of the main island, are bay-breasted 
and Cape May warblers, and white-winged crossbills. You will have to 
get up about four in the morning to find them! The pileated woodpecker 
ALLAN D. CRUICKSHANK FROM N.A.S. 
Mr. Buchheister and group at cormorant nest. 
advertised his presence with great rectangular borings in the trees, but 
we never saw him. 
The morning we arrived, Mr. Cruickshank had just rescued two baby 
parula warblers from a red squirred that had destroyed the nest and eaten 
two other young. He improvised a nest of the usnea lichen which drapes 
all the trees of the island, and suspended it from a branch hung between 
packing boxes. Apparently indifferent to the campers and their cameras, 
the parent birds fed the young for the next three days. <A picture which 
everyone prized was the male parula, wings beating furiously, feeding the 
tiny babies from the outstretched hand of five-year-old Joel, Mr. Cadbury’s 
son. 
