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Identifier: birdlore61904nati (find matches)
Title: Bird lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Committee of the Audubon Societies of America National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals National Audubon Society
Subjects: Birds Birds Ornithology
Publisher: New York City : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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No. 2. WOODCOCK ON NEST post, got the camera in position and took photograph No. 5 very hastily,then settled down and made two more exposures with great deliberation,so as to be sure of the matter. Afterwards I sat down, lighted a cigar A Woodcock at Home 151 and smoked out some of the mosquitoes, listened to the cluck of themother and a little later discovered her coming back through the tangle,never approaching near enough for a snap-shot, but all the while utteringher calls. Presently I heard a very tiny, plaintive and long-drawn-oute-e-p, and soon one of mylittle ones had gone, andin less than two minutesall had disappeared. I tried every way afterthat to get a photograph ofher and the young together,but this I now believe was
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TWO HOURSLATER THANTHE LOWERPICTURE No. 4. YOUNG WOODCOCK IN NEST. HATCHED PRECRDINC; M(,H I impossible, as she would not come nearer than ten feet of them, alwayscalling them to her, nor could I get nearer than that to them when allwere together. With reluctance I abandoned the attempt and left theplace, trusting that I might be able to get something at a future day. On Saturday, May 28, the young now being about nine days old, I 152 Bird-Lore again visited the place to see if I could discover them, being careful to takeBob with me. In about ten minutes we found them, and photograph No.6was taken as hastily as possible. A minute afterward they had all slippedaway. A week later, June 4, I worked the place over carefully with Bob, butfailed to find a single Woodcock. Twenty rods away, however, we flushed

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