LHe) WHire- WINGED FLEET 
ious and unceasing fuss over my presence, going 
on to their nests awhile, and flying up again with- 
out any seeming provocation. At first I thought 
faat. the taskevl : 
had -anap pled 
with so confi- 
dently would 
find the day too 
short for its ac- 
complishment. I 
set the camera in 
thessanid, of 
grass, by shelter- 
ing clumps of 
weeds, near two 
or three nests: 
but the hovering 
birds provoking- 
ly would not go 
on, and I could 
not afford time 
for an indefinite 
wait. At last if I TRIED MY LUCK O)} THE TERNS YOUNG COM 
MON TERN 
noticed! 2 set‘ of 
two eggs that were pipped, and I certainly thought 
the owner would brave the camera for them. So 
she did. With the thread in hand I lay down 
on the sand about fifty yards away. Within five 
minutes she alit close’ to) the “nest, and [I got a 
picture, and soon another, as she was covering her 
eggs, ; 
Quite a few of the Gulls’ eggs had hatched. 
The young were skulking among the weeds and 
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