. Wild wings; adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of North America on sea and land . SHORE-BIRD LOITERERS 253 ing, and never stopping its scolding. Then, with redoubledoutcry, it dashes oft again for another furious onslaught. Ifone can handle a reflecting camera deftly, here is a finechance for a picture in flight. On a marsh of a Virginia coast. NEST AND EGGS OF WILLET island 1 secured a fine series of Willet pictures by placingthe camera on the tripod under a bush, focused on the toptwigs of a stub upon which I noticed that the angry Willetrepeatedly alighted, and hidi
. Wild wings; adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of North America on sea and land . SHORE-BIRD LOITERERS 253 ing, and never stopping its scolding. Then, with redoubledoutcry, it dashes oft again for another furious onslaught. Ifone can handle a reflecting camera deftly, here is a finechance for a picture in flight. On a marsh of a Virginia coast. NEST AND EGGS OF WILLET island 1 secured a fine series of Willet pictures by placingthe camera on the tripod under a bush, focused on the toptwigs of a stub upon which I noticed that the angry Willetrepeatedly alighted, and hiding well off in the grass withthe connecting thread in hand. Of course the provokingbird would alight on some other stub or go off, and requirefurther stirring up on my part. But during the afternoon I 254 WILD WINGS inveigled it into alighting half a dozen different times whereI wanted it to and when I was at the end of my thread andready, which was more than I could ha-\e expected of theobstreperous creature. The climax was capped in my Willet hunting when, on a keyoff the South Carolina coast, I came upon a breeding colon} ofthese birds. For several miles there was a rather narrow ridgeof dry sand, with frequent clumps of grass or weeds, betweenthe sea on the one hand and the marsh on the other. Sev-eral of us traversed this strip systematically, and every fe
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