. Bird lore . 44 Bird-Lore eared Owl are known to nest there, and my boatman, an intelligent fellow,who has done some collecting, declared that he had known a pair of SnowyOwls to raise a brood of young. The shore-birds found there in summer are very interesting. TheLeast Sandpiper is quite common, and if one will only keep stirring aroundover the marshy tundra, he will probably happen upon a nest. A pair ofthem raised a brood of the daintiest little chicks imaginable in a dry pastureright by the house next to the one where we were staying. How persist -. WILSONS SNIPE ON NESTPiping her remons
. Bird lore . 44 Bird-Lore eared Owl are known to nest there, and my boatman, an intelligent fellow,who has done some collecting, declared that he had known a pair of SnowyOwls to raise a brood of young. The shore-birds found there in summer are very interesting. TheLeast Sandpiper is quite common, and if one will only keep stirring aroundover the marshy tundra, he will probably happen upon a nest. A pair ofthem raised a brood of the daintiest little chicks imaginable in a dry pastureright by the house next to the one where we were staying. How persist -. WILSONS SNIPE ON NESTPiping her remonstrance ently the anxious parents followed me, twittering and scolding, is evincedby the reflex snapshots which I have to show for it. Then there is the Wilsons , which we can see almost any daywinnowing the air with a humming sound like that made by the Golden-eye, twittering its love-song, or scolding sharply from the tip-top of a lowspruce, if we are too near its nest or young. If we discover the nest byflushing the owner from it, she will soon return, perhaps even while we arelooking on. I have a series of pictures which I took by setting the cameraclose to a nest and pulling a thread attached to the shutter. In one ofthese—taken as I stood out in plain sight, only a few steps away—the Snipeis just settling down upon the eggs, eyeing me and piping her remonstrance. The little Plovers—Piping and Semi-palmated—resort together in scat-tered colonies, to lay their eggs amid the sparse beach-grass, or at its edge, Some Bird-Notes from
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