. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. Photo by Howard H. Cleaves THE RED-SHOULDER TEARING AWAY THE SIDE OF THE DECOY The hawk's wings far forward at the "top" of a stroke and tail spread like a fan. Several crows show in the distance on the wing (see text, page 13) blind, while others, under precisely the same conditions, proved to be decidedly skeptical and required an hour or more to become reconciled. And now and then a hawk would be accommodating for a time, but would suddenly, without ap- parent reason, go off and refuse to return so long as the blin
. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. Photo by Howard H. Cleaves THE RED-SHOULDER TEARING AWAY THE SIDE OF THE DECOY The hawk's wings far forward at the "top" of a stroke and tail spread like a fan. Several crows show in the distance on the wing (see text, page 13) blind, while others, under precisely the same conditions, proved to be decidedly skeptical and required an hour or more to become reconciled. And now and then a hawk would be accommodating for a time, but would suddenly, without ap- parent reason, go off and refuse to return so long as the blind was near. AMUSING EXPERIMENTS WITH A PIPING- PLOVER I recall working the better part of an afternoon trying to photograph an old piping-plover at her nest without suc- cess ; but a couple of years later, on a different portion of the coast, I came upon a breeding piping-plover that went to the other extreme and permitted a sur- prising degree of familiarity. By simply holding the camera in my hands and standing in the open, without concealment of any kind, I was able to photograph the bird as she approached her nest and brooded her newly hatched young. Not being content with this, I put my hat over the nest in the absence of the old plover, and was nearly convulsed by watching the "circus" when she returned. She came unerringly back to the nest- site, which perhaps she recognized by the two familiar tufts of beach grass, one of which stood on either side of the nest; but here between them was a peculiar hillock that had grown up during the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Washington, D. C. : National Geographic Society
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