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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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- intentions that she would sitquite still in spite of being uncovered, as shownin our illustration, whilst I knelt in full view ofher, and less than a couple of feet away. Overand over again, when I left my hiding shelter ofsticks and reeds to arrest the undesirable move-ments of some recalcitrant blade of grass withinmy field of focus, she would run and hide in thestructure a yard away, and remain there untilI had finished my outside work, when we simplyexchanged places for the taking of the nextphotograph. I hold the opinion, and I think that my
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GRASSHOPPER WARBLER ON NEST. 214 WILD NATURES WAYS. experience entitles me to it, that almost anythingmay be done mth even the shyest and wariest ofwild animals by patience and kindness. Hearingof a water rails nest, I induced a friendly marsh-man to help me to remove a reed screen, that hadbeen built elsewhere by an intensely practicalold gunner for hiding purposes, to its precincts.We fixed the structure up some six or sevenfeet aw^ay from the birds nest, and after tramplinga narrow lane in the sedge grass and rushes, sothat she could see it, retired. Big with excitement, I jnmted over to theplace the following morning, and creepingstealthily into the tiny fold made by the fourwalls of reed, prepared tor action, and kneltdown. In about half an hour tlie weird cry of a railclose at hand broke the silence, and at the sametime rather startled me. It was repeated whilstthe bird walked slowly round my place of con-cealment, and a torturing fear flashed across mymind that she could see me

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