GAVIA OF IMMER LAKE 



Of course you have guessed it! Gavia was on her 

 nest. She had hidden her two babies among the bul- 

 rushes for safety, and must stay there herself to keep 

 them warm. They were not yet out of their eggshells, 

 so the only care they needed for many a long day and 

 night was constant warmth enough for growth. They 

 lay near each other, the two big eggs, of a color that 

 some might call brown and some might call green, 

 with dark-brown spots splashed over them. 



The nest Gavia and her mate had prepared for them 

 was a heap of old wet reeds and other dead water- 



Two babies, not yet out of their eggshells, hidden among the rushes. 



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