. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The Snowy Plover. Taken in Santa Barbara THE APPROACH Photo by the Author FEMALE SNOWY PLOVER STEALING FORWARD TO CLAIM EGGS. THE EGGS THEMSELVES ARE JUST IN FRONT OF THE BIRD, BUT OUT OF FOCUS dry nurse too. The sands are his gymnasium, circus, arena (to be exact). Here it is he dries his clothes after a plunge, or takes a towel of sand in its powdery warmth and, rising, shakes the dry liquid from him in prismatic showers. Here he woos and battles
. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The Snowy Plover. Taken in Santa Barbara THE APPROACH Photo by the Author FEMALE SNOWY PLOVER STEALING FORWARD TO CLAIM EGGS. THE EGGS THEMSELVES ARE JUST IN FRONT OF THE BIRD, BUT OUT OF FOCUS dry nurse too. The sands are his gymnasium, circus, arena (to be exact). Here it is he dries his clothes after a plunge, or takes a towel of sand in its powdery warmth and, rising, shakes the dry liquid from him in prismatic showers. Here he woos and battles, loses, triumphs, mourns, or otherwise conducts the business of life. From the sands he wrests his meat and upon the sands alone he couches his slumbering form. And on the sand he dreams, for when the wind stirs up the sand, ah, then it is it whispers to him of soft enchantments and of fairy banquetings. In these hurrying particles a thousand diamonds flash and a million glasses tinkle, and the piper feels himself some fairy regent in a heaven of his own. Snowy Plovers are resident upon our southern beaches. They are not distributed along over the entire stretch of shoreline, but occur only in most favored situations, usually those which are backed by sand dunes, or which give easy access to a hinterland containing brackish lagoons or a quiet-flowing river. In such places they assemble in colonies num- bering from half a dozen to a score of pairs, and if the annual crop of babies is a good one, one may see a hundred birds in August on a given stretch of beach. The Plovers show no jealousy of other birds, and mingle on occasion with such visitors as Sanderlings, Semipalmated Plovers, and Killdeers, or with the lesser sandpipers. Some of their food is obtained at the water's edge or on the wet sand, and some is taken on the saline flats which border the lagoons; but more of it is found along the dry sand levels which lie above the 1316. Please note that these images are extracte
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