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Title: Wild nature's ways
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Kearton, Richard, 1862-1928
Subjects: Birds Insects Natural history
Publisher: London, Paris, New York Melbourne, Cassell and company, limited
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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her home, and sitting onthe nest, busied herself in dragging blade afterblade of grass back to its original position withher bill. I remember once visiting a nest belonging tothis species rather late in the evening, and as Ineither saw the bird quit it nor heard her familiarcry near the place, became apprehensive lestthe hiding contrivance I had built close at handhad made her forsake it. Stooping to ascertainwhether her eggs were warm or cold, I was greatlyastonished to discover the bird sitting at home,and although I touched her somewhat roughhon her back, she did not appear to mind, but satquite still until I withdrew. The female redshank manifests the greatestsolicitude for the welfare of her young. I watchedthe individual figured in the full page illustrationreproduced on p. 189 covering her downy chickswithin a few feet of me during the threateneddownpour of a shower of rain. She made thehappiest, proudest little mother I ever saw, andher tenderness was a subject for admiration.
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i88 WILD NATURES WAYS. Every time a wee enquiring head was thrustfrom beneath her plumage she gently pushed itback again with her bill, all the while talking tothe uneasy seeker after knowledge in soft, per-suasive notes. Her mate kept calling to her from a distance,and she answered him while she sat in her loudtoodle, toodle, ialoodle note, which sounded as ifit had come from a bird many times her sizeafter the small sweet voice in which she hadtalked to her baby chicks. A strange thing about the species is thatalthough the chicks will readily swim from smallislands upon which they have been hatched, andadult birds can easily do so, they do not oftentake to the water. When the young ones aremaking a \oyage in response to maternal wishes,instead of joining them, as one would naturallyexpect such a devoted parent to do, she fluttersoverhead, and contents herself with giving adviceand encouragement to the youthful adventurersbelow. Another species which never fails to arrestthe attentio

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