. Bird-lore . WIMMING PAST MR. BOHLMANS BLIND The Audubon Societies 77 She certainly knew by this time that Iknew she was there, for when I approachedshe turned nervously. When I got a bitcloser she arose slightly and began draw-ing soft down about the edge of the nest,tucking it under with her bill, so her eggswould be protected if she really had toleave. Not fifty yards away we found a secondPintails nest where the owner was verymuch wilder. The incubation of the eggswas at about the same stage in both nests,yet the two ducks were very different in its nest in the most remote corner it canfi
. Bird-lore . WIMMING PAST MR. BOHLMANS BLIND The Audubon Societies 77 She certainly knew by this time that Iknew she was there, for when I approachedshe turned nervously. When I got a bitcloser she arose slightly and began draw-ing soft down about the edge of the nest,tucking it under with her bill, so her eggswould be protected if she really had toleave. Not fifty yards away we found a secondPintails nest where the owner was verymuch wilder. The incubation of the eggswas at about the same stage in both nests,yet the two ducks were very different in its nest in the most remote corner it canfind. The duck has many enemies whichdo not seem to disturb the other birds. Inone place I found several different durk-nests that had been raided b\- some egg-sucking animals; nothing but the shellsremained. Ducks do not always nest in the midstof the marsh. I found one nest half a milefrom the river in the woods. There arc-many destructive animals in the woods,yet, perhaps, not many more than on theopen A PAIR OF CANADA GEESE WITH THEIR SIX YOUNG individuality. The owner of the secondnest was a great deal wilder. Even with ablind to shield the camera, we could notget near enough for a picture. For a month and a half we cruised andcamped along Klamath River, LowerKlamath Lake and White Lake, and thencrossed over to Lost River and down intoTule Lake. Out in the lakes, on the float-ing tule-islands, we found large colonies ofpelicans, cormorants, grebes, gulls, andother birds. There were hundreds andthousands of nests crowded together in acomparatively small area. A gull or peli-can nests in the open, but a duck will hide When we reached Tule Lake, we campedin an old stack-yard at the mouth of LostRiver. This was a rendezvous for water-fowl. It was in the midst of the breeding-season, when one might think all the birdswere mated or going in pairs, yet here inthe midst of the marsh we found ducks inlarge flocks. Perhaps these were birds thatwere not breeding. In some instan
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