. Wild wings; adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of North America on sea and land . ^we might find them nesting in this Southern IN THE CAPE SABLE WILDERNESS 49 The first lake was quite a large one, several miles poled past various little mangrove islands, starting num-bers of Brown Pelicans and Florida Cormorants from someof them, where they were roosting upon dead stubs at theirshores. Then we followed a narrow channel through the man-grove forest, the connection with the next lake of the Ibises and Yellow-crowned Night Herons kept fly
. Wild wings; adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of North America on sea and land . ^we might find them nesting in this Southern IN THE CAPE SABLE WILDERNESS 49 The first lake was quite a large one, several miles poled past various little mangrove islands, starting num-bers of Brown Pelicans and Florida Cormorants from someof them, where they were roosting upon dead stubs at theirshores. Then we followed a narrow channel through the man-grove forest, the connection with the next lake of the Ibises and Yellow-crowned Night Herons kept flyingup before us to enliven the scene. Presently we came out intothe lake. It also was ver} shallow, with bare mud-flats hereand there, on which were scattered cjuite a host of and noisy were a flock of Laughing Gulls. Lessconspicuous, but even more interesting to us, were theshore-birds, which we found abundant l^oth in this spot andelsewhere during the day. Right before us upon the flata fine band of the large Black-bellied Plover, and aroundthem a humble host of various sandpipers. Ring-neckedPlovers, Dowitchers, and the like, were feedin
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