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WILD NATURE'S WAYS. 



YOUNG REDSHANK. 



of the duties of brooding, by sitting on some 

 elevated spray and beguiling the tedium of his 

 mate's task in very simple but oft-repeated 

 strains. 



Whilst staying alone in an old house-boat 

 belonging to a friend on the Broads last spring, 

 I had three pairs of these birds breeding within 

 a stone's throw of me, and determined to secure 

 sun pictures of some of them if I could. Having 

 no hiding contrivance of any kind at hand, I 

 set to work and built myself a stick and reed 

 house with back loads of materials which were 

 kindly brought for me by one of the most in- 

 telligent and enthusiastic ornithological marshmen 

 in the county of Norfolk. 



As soon as the frail wind-shaken structure 



