. Bird lore . ay had left me, to go to his cottage at FairfieldBeach, eleven miles east of my home, and he found that large numbers of theNighthawks were feeding over the broad meadows, and that certain of thebeach population were shooting them. He secured three of the dead birds, while more drifted off with the tide, andevidence that resulted in convicting two men of the shooting, but not withoutsome diflSculty, as one of them was assistant city clerk in one of our large cities. Making a note of this Nighthawk incursion, I find that on the evening ofSeptember 6, 1905, there was a similar migr
. Bird lore . ay had left me, to go to his cottage at FairfieldBeach, eleven miles east of my home, and he found that large numbers of theNighthawks were feeding over the broad meadows, and that certain of thebeach population were shooting them. He secured three of the dead birds, while more drifted off with the tide, andevidence that resulted in convicting two men of the shooting, but not withoutsome diflSculty, as one of them was assistant city clerk in one of our large cities. Making a note of this Nighthawk incursion, I find that on the evening ofSeptember 6, 1905, there was a similar migration of Nighthawks when theirnumbers seemed inexhaustible. This time, the birds were flying high in open formation, in slow and heavyflight, as though tired, and came out of the east and disappeared into the west. It is an interesting coincidence that both of these flights should haveoccurred on the same day of the month and the same time of the day, and thatboth were following the shore of Long Island ?^
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