Pond Life 
and disappears below the surface, and 
doesn’t come up again until she is quite 
a long distance away. 
This year I spentseveral days watching 
some of these small diving birds, which 
were nesting in a pond not far from my 
house. There were three pairs of them, 
and two of these had hatched two broods 
of young ones, so that altogether there 
was quite a number. Very enjoyable it 
was to sit and watch them diving about 
and feeding their quaint-looking little 
ones. These didn’t appear to be very 
much bigger than large beetles, and 
generally huddled together on the sur- 
face in a small cluster, until one of the 
parents would reappear after a dive with 
food at a little distance, and encourage 
them to swim after it. Several times I 
was able to see that they fed them with 
