VOL. IX.] " WAIT AND SEE " PHOTOGRAPHY. 309 



I succeeded in getting a long-distance shot at individual 

 birds — mostly ducks, coming down to bathe. The two 

 pools were the Sheld-drakes' favourite haunts and the 

 level greensward their leking-ground. Here some fifteen 



Fig. 3. COMMON TERN RKFLECTINO. 

 (Photographed by Miss E. L. Turner.) 



drakes met daily for play, or they bathed in little com- 

 panies, morning, afternoon and evening. For the sun beat 

 dcwwn on the hot sand all that week, making frequent 

 bathes a delightful necessity. After bathing they ran 

 about in the shimmering heat, or dozed in the hot smi- 

 shine until it was time for another plunge. But these 

 Sheld-drake parties alwa3^s managed to keep just beyond 

 the range of my camera. 



