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Identifier: birdlore161914nati (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 Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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confined almost con-stantly to his home in Plainfield, NewJersey. It was therefore a great delight toall to see that he had so far recovered asto be able to meet with us on this occasion.Mr. Dutcher attended both sessions, andalso a subsequent meeting of the Board of Directors. Although as yet he is unable tospeak, it was perfectly apparent to thosepresent that he thoroughly understood allthat was going on. The brightness of hisface, and the animation of his frequentgestures, indicated clearly his great happi-ness at being once more among his Audu-bon Society friends. PHOTOGRAPHING BIRDS NESTS By OSCAR E. BAYNARD Illustrated from photographs by the writer One of the phases of bird-study whichthe Audubon Society encourages, and whichhas long appealed to me, is that of photo-graphing the nests of wild birds. When thisis done with care there need be no evil Wilsons Plover The Wilsons Plover, or Stuttering-Bird,as.it is sometimes called locally, is themost common of our summer beach-birds
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rrrf»^»sri. A NEST OF WILSONS PLOVER results to the birds, and the picturesobtained are often very interesting. With this article I present photographswhich I have secured of some of the moreunusual species of Florida birds, that Ihave had the good fortune to find. in southern Florida. A few remain hereall winter, but become most numerous onthe beaches in the latter part of March.I have found fresh eggs as earh- as April2, and as late as July 10, These ploversbuild no nests—just bollnw out a place 472 Bird - Lore in the beach a few yards above high-watermark, and lay three, rarely four, beautifulgreenish-gray eggs, spotted, blotched, andlined with blackish brown and light laven-der. Early in June of this year I was camp-ing on a small sandy key, about a hundredyards wide, between the Gulf of Mexicoand a bay. The plovers were nesting on abank of white sand that had been thrownup by steam dredges a few years before onthe bay side, probably half a mile long, andbarely a foot above th

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