204 Birds of Oregon and Washington 



more tropical regions. The account should be 

 read by all bird-students. 



This bird nests in the North, but perhaps not 

 so far north as do his relatives, and he makes 

 haste to rear his young, for, beginning in May, 

 he is ready to return to his accustomed haunts 

 on our shores, in July. After nesting, these 

 Sandpipers gather in flocks, like the other two 

 families described here, and live upon sand- 

 beach and mud-flat their happy lives. They 

 have few or no enemies, except the occasional 

 man, who must feel guilty when tempted to shoot 

 these confiding creatures which beautify and 

 render less bare and lonely our sea-shore. 

 These birds are also found everywhere inland, 

 wherever there are marshy meadows, shores of 

 creeks, rivers and lakes. 



Celia Thaxter, of literary fame, who lived 

 upon the Isles of Shoals, on the Atlantic coast, 

 where several species of the Sandpiper had safe, 

 summer homes, has made herself and the Soli- 

 tary Sandpiper (a few of this species are found 

 here) immortal in her poem, "The Sandpiper," 

 of which the first and third verses are here 

 given : 



