. Wild nature's ways . gwell with my sitters. Monday was hailed with excitement, andprovided an amply satisfying measure of hardwoik. I knelt hve hours with the oyster-catchers,and secured a number of what turned out to besuccessful pictures, our full-page illustration onpage 249 being one of them. Angus arrived with my lunch about twooclock, and half an hour afterwards he hadshifted the doorway timber from Oyster-CatcherHouse to Ringed Plover Villa, and I was tuckedup and waiting for the latter bird to come minutes after my assistant had taken hisdeparture she was covering her eggs,
. Wild nature's ways . gwell with my sitters. Monday was hailed with excitement, andprovided an amply satisfying measure of hardwoik. I knelt hve hours with the oyster-catchers,and secured a number of what turned out to besuccessful pictures, our full-page illustration onpage 249 being one of them. Angus arrived with my lunch about twooclock, and half an hour afterwards he hadshifted the doorway timber from Oyster-CatcherHouse to Ringed Plover Villa, and I was tuckedup and waiting for the latter bird to come minutes after my assistant had taken hisdeparture she was covering her eggs, and Istraightway added her portrait to our slight noise of the fast shutter frightenedher so much, however, that she did not ventureto return to her nest for an hour and ten this while she kept running round and roundthe stone house, trying in vain to solve themystery of the strange sound-maker inside. Shefrequently picked up pebbles in the same waythat the oyster-catchers had done, but, unlike. RINGED PLOVER ON NEST. 2=56 WILD NATURES WAYS.
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