. Bird lore . BLACK T£RN INCUBATINGJune 29, 1901 ■ - ^1:*^ .•.•■..^^ ^-■■^- BLACK TERN BROODING YOUNGJuly 8, igoi (2) The Black Tern at Home 3 the Terns were greatly concerned. With piercing screams they darted atus, once actually hitting Mr. Setons hat. Search failing to reveal any sign of the young birds, the camera was leftto play detective. Focusing it on the empty nest and surrounding it with cat-tails, we attached some seventy feet of tubing and retired to the highgrasses of a neighboring dry bank. Hut we were not hidden from theTern. She hovered over us, shrieking her disgust with scarc
. Bird lore . BLACK T£RN INCUBATINGJune 29, 1901 ■ - ^1:*^ .•.•■..^^ ^-■■^- BLACK TERN BROODING YOUNGJuly 8, igoi (2) The Black Tern at Home 3 the Terns were greatly concerned. With piercing screams they darted atus, once actually hitting Mr. Setons hat. Search failing to reveal any sign of the young birds, the camera was leftto play detective. Focusing it on the empty nest and surrounding it with cat-tails, we attached some seventy feet of tubing and retired to the highgrasses of a neighboring dry bank. Hut we were not hidden from theTern. She hovered over us, shrieking her disgust with scarcely a pause,turning her long beak to this side and that, as she brought each eye in turnto bear. Finally, her craiks grew softer, and, fluttering over the nest, sheuttered a sohwheent—ivbeent—wheent, which probably meant to her down-. VOUNG BLACK TERNS IN NESTJuly 8. iQoi ings Its all right; come back home now. After half a minute of thiscalling, she fluttered lower and dropped out of sight behind the reed , there could be little doubt that with her voice she had conjuredthe chicks back to the nest. Acting on this belief, a dozen rapid strokes were given to the bicyclepump at the end of the tube, and the Tern promptly flew up into the air,uttering her loud craik—craik in a way that plainly showed something hadhappened close by to alarm her, and thus plainly told us that the shutter onthe camera had been sprung. Instantly we rushed through the mud andwater to the nest, but only to find it as empty as before. Inserting a fresh plate in the camera, we returned to our the Tern scolded us vigorously, but after a while, as before, her fearsseemed to decrease; she gradually drew nearer to the nest and eventuallydropped lightly down into the reeds, evidently on it. After waiting a ^
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