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Identifier: outing55newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
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lue herons, by wayof variety we may turn to another color.We have a very familiar species knownas the green heron, and the contrast isfurther heightened because this bird iscomparatively short of stature. Likeall herons it is timid, yet not nearly somuch so as the great blue. If we takea walk in the meadow some day, or overthe salt marsh, we may be startled bya shrill scream, and from our very feet,out of a ditch or clump of grass, awaywill go a small heron with green backand brown neck. There it has hidden till the last mo-ment, hoping that we would pass itsafely by. But we happened so nearthat the nervous creature could containitself no longer, and the secret is out.The boys think it says skeowk whenit flies up, and down on Cape Cod theygive it that for a name. Late in May, or throughout June,we may find its saucer-shaped nest ofcuriously curved sticks in almost anythicket* or woodland in the vicinity ofwater. Like the great blue heron it laysfour or five pale-blue eggs, though much
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A PAIR OF NIGHT HERONS RETURNING TO THEIR NEST. smaller ones. Unlike its relative, eachpair prefers to nest by itself, though attimes several nests may be found scat-tered about in the same swamp. OftenI find its nest in dry woods near theshore of pond or river, about fifteen feetup in a convenient tree, but its favoritesite is in a wet swamp, and alders grow-ing out of water exactly meet its re-quirements. Such a breeding place as this last is near my home, and every season thereare several pairs nesting in the low alderbushes. Finding a convenient nest lowdown, I set up the camera near it onthe tripod, deck it with foliage, and hideat some distance on a hummock, hold-ing a thread which is attached to theshutter. After some time the littlemother comes sneaking back home, nerv-ously jerking her stubby little tail.She hesitates at sight of the bedecked 46i 462 THE OUTING MAGAZINE camera, but at length she settles downupon her eggs, and, presto! her pictureis taken. It is in a rather pe

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