. American bird magazine, ornithology. Birds. AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 311 stumps of trees and prepared to wait for my picture. After waiting about two hours, down came the Gull and alighted near the camera. Walking up to it she picked off some of the moss and then settled on her nest still holding some of the moss in her bill. I pulled the string and gave about four seconds exposure as it was in the dark part of the wood and being late in the afternoon, the long shadows were stealing through the forest. She did not seem to hear the sound of the shutter and did not move until I commenced to whist
. American bird magazine, ornithology. Birds. AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 311 stumps of trees and prepared to wait for my picture. After waiting about two hours, down came the Gull and alighted near the camera. Walking up to it she picked off some of the moss and then settled on her nest still holding some of the moss in her bill. I pulled the string and gave about four seconds exposure as it was in the dark part of the wood and being late in the afternoon, the long shadows were stealing through the forest. She did not seem to hear the sound of the shutter and did not move until I commenced to whistle. She then flew up with a scream and soon had all the neighboring Gulls in the air. Sometimes after waiting for three and four hours covered with sticks, moss and brush, I have found on developing the plate, a Gull with two bills and four eyes, but this only made me more anxious to succeed. The nest containing two chickens and one egg was taken on a bright day with one second exposure. Bernice Crowell. The Herring Gull is one of the largest of the family, being about two feet in length and having an expanse of nearly five feet. It is exceed- ed in size by the Black-backed and Glaucous Gulls, the first being much darker on the back and the latter much lighter. They have yellow bills and eyes, flesh-colored feet, a pearly gray mantle, the rest of the plu- mage being white in summer and the head slightly striped with dusky in the winter. Immature specimens are a uniform dark gray with lighter edges to the feathers. They nest on islands from Maine north- wards and winter from Massachusetts southwards. They build on the ground unless disturbed when they take to the trees. They fly with their bill in a line with the body and are frequently seen resting on the water. Their food is wholly animal matter, chiefly EGG OF HERRING GULL, (Natural Size.). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - color
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