. Bird lore. Birds; Birds; Ornithology. Notes from Field and Study 265 prised to see her 'freeze,' when picture making became easy. While I remained still, with a movement so gradual as to be almost imperceptible, the Bittern would stretch out her neck and turn and start to walk away, but at a call or a clap of the hands she would 'freeze' again, and then repeat the stealthy effort to slink away. At times the wings would be dropped to the ground and the crest feathers luck on her nest journey southward.— Wilbur F. Smith, South Norwalk, Conn. Killdeer in Connecticut During the fall of 1916 whil
. Bird lore. Birds; Birds; Ornithology. Notes from Field and Study 265 prised to see her 'freeze,' when picture making became easy. While I remained still, with a movement so gradual as to be almost imperceptible, the Bittern would stretch out her neck and turn and start to walk away, but at a call or a clap of the hands she would 'freeze' again, and then repeat the stealthy effort to slink away. At times the wings would be dropped to the ground and the crest feathers luck on her nest journey southward.— Wilbur F. Smith, South Norwalk, Conn. Killdeer in Connecticut During the fall of 1916 while repairs were being made around the dam of one of the local reservoirs, the water was lowered about eighteen inches. This laid bare a great area of lake bottom at the upper end where the water is normally. ^<^J^ AMERICAN BITTERN raised, and when facing me the mass of breast feathers would be fluffed out, giv- ing her a formidable appearance which I imagine caused her captor to run for the blanket. After getting all the pictures I wished, I gave her a toss into the air and she flew off and alighted on the shore at the edge of some salt-water grasses, and so per- fectly did the yellows and browns of her feathers blend with the yellowing grasses that she seemed to vanish from sight, and I left her hoping she would have better shallow and where a rich growth of vege- table and minute animal life had existed. In fact, the conditions very nearly dupli- cated those existing around western prairie sloughs in the summer as the water slowly recedes by evaporation leaving exposed such a wealth of food for the waders. It was late in the afternoon, October 29, while out walking that we first noticed these unusually favorable conditions and saw at that time, besides a Solitary Sandpiper and one Greater Yellow-legs, a. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these ill
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