. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. >rv>wv:-;^ Photo by H. K. Job Courtesy of Houghton MifEiin Co. OYSTER-CATCHER On nest. South Carolina the bar, often among shells and bunches of drifted sea-weed, with which they aptly blend. The young are even harder to discover, unless they are seen to run. I have searched a bar, as it were, with a fine-tooth comb before detecting the little creatures — exactly the color of the sand — lying outstretched by some weed or bit of debris. One very absorbing experience which I have had was in photographing an Oyster-catcher at her nest. The open s
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. >rv>wv:-;^ Photo by H. K. Job Courtesy of Houghton MifEiin Co. OYSTER-CATCHER On nest. South Carolina the bar, often among shells and bunches of drifted sea-weed, with which they aptly blend. The young are even harder to discover, unless they are seen to run. I have searched a bar, as it were, with a fine-tooth comb before detecting the little creatures — exactly the color of the sand — lying outstretched by some weed or bit of debris. One very absorbing experience which I have had was in photographing an Oyster-catcher at her nest. The open sand-flat aft'orded no possible concealment. At night I placed a bunch of sea- weed near the two eggs. In the morning I set the camera under this, and, attaching a spool of strong thread to the shutter, had my friends bury me in the sand, at the thread's end, all but head and arm. When the rest of the party left the island, the birds walked right past me, gazing without fear at the apparently disconnected head cast up by the waves. Soon the female was shielding her eggs from the blazing Carolina sun. Then excitedly I pulled the thread and the picture was mine! Herbert K. Job. The Black, or Bachman's, Oyster-catcher (Hariiiatopiis bachmani) is peculiar to the Pacific coast of North America, breeding from Prince William Sound, Alaska, west through the Aleu- tian Islands and south to central Lower Cali- fornia, and wintering from southern British Columbia to Lower California. It averages about two inches shorter than its eastern congener. Its head and neck are dull bluish-black, and the rest of its plumage brownish-black. In habits it, also, is strictly a Photo by Clyde Fisher Courtesy of Kat. A^.j, .\iv\. ^juc. ON ORANGE LAKE The Island, here shown, was purchased by the National Association of Audubon Societies for a bird reservation. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - colora
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