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WILD WINGS 
Again and again she approached almost to the nest, only to 
flee in dismay. Finally, becoming bolder, after twenty min¬ 
utes of this hesitancy, without warning she suddenly fairly 
“ scooted ” over the moss and settled down upon her eggs. 
Snap went the shutter, and her portrait was mine. Instantly 
MOTHER LEAST SANDPIPER. “ALIGHTED ON THE POSTS AND WIRE 
she darted ofl in great fright, too much alarmed to venture 
again. So I }:)hotographed the nest and eggs and withdrew. 
Four years later, again in June, I was back at the Magda- 
lens. Daily ]Dassing along a road bv a fisherman’s house 
revealed nothing notable, until one dav, at the very end of 
our stay, one of our party, passing this spot, was attracted bv 
the actions of a pair of Least Sandpipers. Desperate with 
anxiety, they fluttered along the road before him and alighted, 
vociferating, on the posts and wire of the fence. l"pon learn- 
