. The oist . wood andupland birds, although several of ourcoastwise migrants do the same thing. The knot seems to like much com-pany, and when one finds a flock ofthese birds he is almost certain tosee many turnstones and black-breast-ed plover mingled in with them. Yearsago the knots were easily approach-ed, being unsuspicious and trusting,but now, since they have been slaugh-tered in such numbers, they are verywary and shy and avoid dangerousplaces. In the fall, the young, in theirmigrations southward, are easy vic-tims for the first hunters along theline, but they, too, soon learn cautionan
. The oist . wood andupland birds, although several of ourcoastwise migrants do the same thing. The knot seems to like much com-pany, and when one finds a flock ofthese birds he is almost certain tosee many turnstones and black-breast-ed plover mingled in with them. Yearsago the knots were easily approach-ed, being unsuspicious and trusting,but now, since they have been slaugh-tered in such numbers, they are verywary and shy and avoid dangerousplaces. In the fall, the young, in theirmigrations southward, are easy vic-tims for the first hunters along theline, but they, too, soon learn cautionand become very restless and easilyalarmed, rising to flight at the leastdisturbance. In some sections the knotis referred to as the placer minerbecause of its habit of closely follow-ing the waves as they recede from thebeaches and picking up the shell fishand other marine food washed up bythe surge. By nature they are verypersistent birds, and old gunners tellus that when they were less wary 110 THE OOLOGIST. O 4) oi S o 2^ *« ore ^ SO. THE OOLOGIST 111
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