. Citizen bird. Scenes from bird-life in plain english for beginners. UP THE RIVER 383. side of the bar to feed, but I've never seen them there. They mostly do their coming and going at night â and fly high too, even " Sandpipers don't ^ \^^ .jM^Mi bore in the ground f^i^X'' ir|^tj»irv » for their food, but just W^'\^k â "**"^^'^ - pick it up ; so they keep ^ along the shore of either Wilson's Snipe. fresh or salt water, some kinds choosing one place and some another. The Spotted Sandpiper is another of the little fellows who sometimes nests back in those meadows. He is not a
. Citizen bird. Scenes from bird-life in plain english for beginners. UP THE RIVER 383. side of the bar to feed, but I've never seen them there. They mostly do their coming and going at night â and fly high too, even " Sandpipers don't ^ \^^ .jM^Mi bore in the ground f^i^X'' ir|^tj»irv » for their food, but just W^'\^k â "**"^^'^ - pick it up ; so they keep ^ along the shore of either Wilson's Snipe. fresh or salt water, some kinds choosing one place and some another. The Spotted Sandpiper is another of the little fellows who sometimes nests back in those meadows. He is not a bit shy, but runs about as tame as a Robin, and he isn't as big as a Robin either. Sometimes they lay their eggs in the meadow and sometimes among the tuft-grass back of the beach. They lay four eggs, very big at one end and peaked at the other, and put them in the nest with the pointed ends together in the middle, to take up less room ; and they're sandy-colored, spotted all over. They hang about here all summer. We call them 'teeters' because they always tip up their tails and bob so when they run. They whistle like this, ' tweet-weet â tweet- weet!' " There's another mite of a Sandpiper that comes around here late every summer, though it nests way up north. It is the very littlest of all, not bigger than a Sparrow, so pretty and innocent-looking that it ought to. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Wright, Mabel Osgood, 1859-1934; Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899. New York, The Macmillan Company
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