WHAT I HAVE DONE WITH BIRDS 



by rowing with the current, and after entering the river I need 

 not pull ; but by steering could travel quite as fast as I wanted to 

 go. On that return trip my first muscalonge showed himself. 

 Really, in the water it looked as long as my boat. The fish must 

 have weighed fifty pounds. It was only a little way in the river 

 mouth, bewildered, no doubt, by the clear water, and it turned 

 almost beneath my boat and went back. A magnificent big fish it 

 was. My attention was called to it by the commotion caused 

 among small fish darting in all directions to escape it. 



On my way back I had a shot with a small hand-camera at a 

 Heron on wing, but it was so far away that developing the plate 

 disclosed only a little speck on the sky. I tried some Plover and 

 a Duck with better results, but that is another story. This one is 

 of the Blue Heron, and is one of my best pieces of work, quite by 

 myself. 



INDIAN RIVER PLOVER 



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