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Spotted Sandpiper. Reaching down to fondle her eggs with her bill. Her back is blurred by the teetering motion in which they always indulge when standing or walking

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Title: American ornithology, for home and school
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Reed, Chester A. (Chester Albert), 1876-1912
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: (Worcester, Mass. : Charles K. Reed)
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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as about to clamber throughmy ambush. He started back as though he had seen a ghost, with aWall I swan! I never seed yer! Of course I was obliged to explainthat I was making photographs, but I did not tell him what of, and hedid not see the nest or the bird which, being frightened, was runningaway with a broken leg and wing, and piping loudly. About every fifteen minutes, while I was watching her, she wouldhalf rise and tread with her feet until she had turned every egg over;she always turned them over, also, after having been away feeding fora short time. Quite often she would answer the male birds as they called to eachother or to their mates, from down at the pond. It sounded alarminglyloud and clear to hear her call, at such a short distance. Always whenreturning to the nest, she would utter low sweet whistles in varying butvery clear tones. Just once I heard her, while she was on the nest,give a series of whistles or warbles. She was undoubtedly so happy AMERICAX ORXITHOLOGY. 287
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Photo from life by C. A. Reed. SPOTT21) SANDPIPER. Rertcliinf/ down to fondle her eggs ivih her bill. Her back is blurred by the feeterinn motion inwhich they nlways indulge when standing or walking. 288 AMERICAN ORXITHOLOGY. that she was singing to herself, and she never knew that she had anappreciative audience. Even while she was sitting, she often teetered her head or tail, and,when standing or just coming to the nest, her movements were so con-tinuous and violent as to def)- the speed of the camera shutter. I made,on different days, six negatives of her as she was about to step on thenest and every one shows the jerky movement of either the head or tail,even though some of them were made in one five hundredeth part of asecond. Several times the male bird came up to the edge of the pines andconversed with her in low pipings, but he never came to the nest,and I do not think that he ever sat upon the eggs; at least, the bird thatI always saw seemed to be the same one. One morning I

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