. Wild wings; adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of North America on sea and land . er, and hungour mosquito net among the trees. After dark I changedplates, and early in the morning went to work again. Therewas nothing new, save for the presence of a splendid maleBlack-breast Plover and two Least Terns bathing in a had to choose between these subjects for the first shot. Ichose the plover, as the shyest of the shore-birds. The terns 222 WILD WINGS soon flew away, but I did not regret the decision. In variousinteresting and characteristic poses, I secured a dozen
. Wild wings; adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of North America on sea and land . er, and hungour mosquito net among the trees. After dark I changedplates, and early in the morning went to work again. Therewas nothing new, save for the presence of a splendid maleBlack-breast Plover and two Least Terns bathing in a had to choose between these subjects for the first shot. Ichose the plover, as the shyest of the shore-birds. The terns 222 WILD WINGS soon flew away, but I did not regret the decision. In variousinteresting and characteristic poses, I secured a dozen picturesof the plover, ending up with a couple when he had tired offeeding, had drawn up one leg, put his bill under his wing-coverts, and gone sweetly off into dreamland. This was gloryenough for one day, so, as the wind had moderated some-what, w^e started again on our beat for Cape Sable. Somenaturalists who afterwards saw this picture were much amusedto think that an old Black-bellied Plover — of all birds —should allow a man to crawl up within ten feet and photo-graph him, and asleep at that!. LESSliR YULLOW-LEGS IN FLOIUDA POOL
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