PHOTOGRAPHING GREY LAG-GOOSE. 



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my heart, and in my excitement I wondered if she would 

 hear that, for there are few things quite so exciting 

 or fascinating to a bird-lover as to be so near to a fine 

 bird like the Grey Lag-Goose. After she had circled 

 my shelter, she walked slowly off towards her nest, and 

 even then kept stopping and looking back as if she were 



FIG. 2.— THE NEST OF THE GREY LAG-GOOSE WITH THE 



EGGS UNCOVERED. 



{Photographed by O. G. Pike.) 



still suspicious. When she reached her nest she began 

 to uncover the eggs, and place the thick covering of 

 down around the edge. The sun by this time had worked 

 round and threw a shadow of the bird's long neck down 

 her back, and it was almost shining in my lens : I 

 knew I only had a few moments left in which it would 

 be possible to make an exposure, so I released the shutter 

 and secured a negative of her standing by the side of 



