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with you in choice of location, you will presently hear the “twilight song” 
of the wood pewee. Before any indication of dawn is perceptible, suddenly 
two or three, seemingly sleepy, notes will come from an invisible singer. 
One or even several minutes may elapse before the next group of two or 
three notes, in turn to be followed by another pause. The duration of the 
pauses rapidly will become shorter, until soon the bird is singing an almost 
continuous series of “phrases” of two or three notes each. This period of 
song will last for perhaps thirty, or it may be sixty, minutes, while you 
wonder that the pewee does not run out of breath. Then it stops abruptly, 
and if the light suffices you may see the bird fly from its singing perch and 
silently disappear. 
Young Louisiana water-thrushes recently out of the nest 
The dead tops of some of the old beech and oak trees in the hotel grounds 
and picnic area provide nest sites for one or more pairs of red-headed 
woodpeckers each summer. In the early morning they sun themselves on 
the high dead limbs and give voice to their typically noisy calls. Their 
black-headed young spend considerable time on the lower trunks, and provide 
a puzzle in identification for many beginning bird students. 
Another species represented by a pair or two near the hotel is the 
Baltimore oriole. In the early part of the summer they are heard frequently, 
but throughout July one seldom hears or sees them. In August they again 
are easily noticed. The parent birds have “weaned” their young, and once 
more become conspicuous in their habits. They are like most other of our 
common birds, doing little singing while they are caring for their fledglings. 
At the head of “Trail 1,” where it goes down the bluff from the hotel to 
“Lovers’ Lane,” there used to stand an old hollow beech stub about twelve 
feet high. One day we were astonished to see a chimney swift flutter 
