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ing, and never stopping its scolding. Then, with redoubled 

 outcry, it dashes off again for another furious onslaught. If 

 one can handle a reflecting camera deftly, here is a fine 

 chance for a picture in flight. On a marsh of a Virginia coast 



NEST AND EGGS OF WILLET 



island I secured a fine series of Willet pictures by placing 

 the camera on the tripod under a bush, focused on the top 

 twigs of a stub upon which I noticed that the angry Willet 

 repeatedly alighted, and hiding well off in the grass with 

 the connecting thread in hand. Of course the provoking 

 bird would alight on some other stub or go off, and require 

 further stirring up on my part. But during the afternoon I 



