GREEN SANDPIPER etait 
displayed great activity and adroitness, the female twisting 
and turning to escape the addresses of the male. 
This bird often takes up its abode in the same locality 
for weeks and months, although at other times, as 
pointed out by Mr. Saunders, it frequently shifts its 
feeding-grounds for no special reason. The late Mr. E. 
Williams kept it under close observation in the same 
locality along the River Dodder, co. Dublin, between 
August and December, 1889 and 1893. He observed it 
Fic. 46.—GREEN SANDPIPER. 
wade without any apparent reason, and when beyond its 
depth, swim like a Water-hen to a shallower spot. On dry 
land it often stood motionless for a long time, waking up 
suddenly and starting to feed. 
Mr. Warren has met with it on the same little pond in 
co. Shgo, during three different years, and Mr. Caton Haigh 
has made similar observations in North-east Lincolnshire 
(‘ Zoologist,’ 1900, L901). 
The Green Sandpiper is not a coast-loving bird, though 
often resorting to maritime counties; on its first arrival it 
may tarry a few days on the sea-shore. Watters records 
a specimen which was obtained on the slob-lands of the 
Dublin coast, when consorting with a number of Dunlins 
and Knots. 
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