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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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A SUDDEN TURN 64 Bird - Lore covered which it was believed could be studied and photographed from aneighboring tree, distant some thirty feet. An umbrella blind of pale greencloth was therefore placed in the tree at a height of forty-five feet, and liberallydraped with Spanish moss. It was arranged to fall over a limb which, for \3 ^^W^^; I ^* Ju~- ki - -*** 1 Si* ^ gW ■ 1 \ i «--*■■ -«■ ^ £ EGRET APPROACHING ITS NESTThe train of closed plumes reaches several inches beyond the tail. Bill retouched by Bruce Horsfall several hours during each of the three succeeding days, served as the perchfrom which my notes and photographs were made. I have had more comfort-able seats, but few that were so enjoyable. From the concealment of the sameblind, it had been my fortune to watch Flamingoes, Pelicans and many other
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(EXPECTATIONYoung Egrets awaiting the coming of the parent with food (65) 66 Bird - Lore ground-nesting birds at close range; but never before had I attempted to entera bird colony in the tree tops, and the experience was as exhilarating as it wasnovel. The Little Blue and Louisiana Herons soon returned to their nests below,the former noisy and quarrelsome, calling at each other notes which soundedstrangely like tell you what, tell you what, the latter less demonstrative and morequiet. The Egrets did not accept the situation so readily. Seven pairs werenesting in the trees near me. Some had eggs, others young birds in variousstages of development. Flying to and fro, with curved neck and streaming

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