. Bird lore . MARSH HAWK. GREATER YELLOW-LEGS A Days Sport with the Red-backs and Greater Yellow-legs 337 ^ moment, and then flew away, to alight farther up the beach, then, seeming togain confidence it began to work toward me. Never having been able tophotograph this wary bird, and expecting that it would fly away, I wasted several plates on long shots, butit came steadily on and joinedthe Red-backs scarcely a rod awayfrom me. Many times before hadI tried to photograph a Yellow-legs but without success, and nowas it mingled with the Red-backsI had my chance. It was not aquestion of getting ne
. Bird lore . MARSH HAWK. GREATER YELLOW-LEGS A Days Sport with the Red-backs and Greater Yellow-legs 337 ^ moment, and then flew away, to alight farther up the beach, then, seeming togain confidence it began to work toward me. Never having been able tophotograph this wary bird, and expecting that it would fly away, I wasted several plates on long shots, butit came steadily on and joinedthe Red-backs scarcely a rod awayfrom me. Many times before hadI tried to photograph a Yellow-legs but without success, and nowas it mingled with the Red-backsI had my chance. It was not aquestion of getting near enough,but rather of catching a goodpose and of getting one bird outalone or all of them in the sameplane so they would all be in goodfocus. Always active, with littlejerky moves, the Red-backs wentabout probing in the soft mud orwading out in the shallow water and sometimes swimming a little. The Yel-low-legs was more deliberate but always moved with infinite grace. One ofthe most graceful moves of a bird is the stret
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