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ing, and never stopping its scolding. Then, with redoubled 
outcry, it dashes off again for another furious onslaught. If 
one can handle a reflecting camera deftly, here is a fine 
chance for a picture in flight. On a marsh of a \drginia coast 
NEST AND EGGS OF WILLET 
island I secured a fine series of Willet pictures by placing 
the camera on the tripod under a bush, focused on the top 
twigs of a stub upon which I noticed that the angry Willet 
repeatedly alighted, and hiding well off in the grass with 
the connecting thread in hand. Of course the provoking 
bird would alight on some other stub or go off, and require 
further stirring up on my part. But during the afternoon I 
