. Wild wings; adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of North America on sea and land . Iving, scattered or in windrows, allover the sand, some of them buried beneath it. A recent galehad flooded the island and broken them up, as the saying eggs were fresh, and some were still in the nests withonly a little sand washed in. Yet the birds had deserted andresumed their natural wildness. i8 WILD WINGS During the same cruise we visited two other peHcan citiesof long standing, which were likewise upon low , though the wary old pelicans were about, there wasnot
. Wild wings; adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of North America on sea and land . Iving, scattered or in windrows, allover the sand, some of them buried beneath it. A recent galehad flooded the island and broken them up, as the saying eggs were fresh, and some were still in the nests withonly a little sand washed in. Yet the birds had deserted andresumed their natural wildness. i8 WILD WINGS During the same cruise we visited two other peHcan citiesof long standing, which were likewise upon low , though the wary old pelicans were about, there wasnot a sign of an egg. The sea may have washed away. On the west coast of Florida the pelicans aresaid to nest usually upon low trees, as some few did in theIndian Ri\-er colonv, and thus escape this danger, only tosuffer at the hand of man. Though nature may be seem-ingly even more wanton than man in its destructions, this is notan example to be followed, but a warning that if he, too,turns destroyer, the birds can have little chance to survive,and the balance of nature will be
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