Photo by Howard H. Cleaves 



THE re;d-shoulder tearing away the side of the decoy 



The hawk's wings far forward at the "top" of a stroke and tail spread like a fan. Several 

 crows show in the distance on the wing (see text, page 13) 



blind, while others, under precisely the 

 same conditions, proved to be decidedly- 

 skeptical and required an hour or more 

 to become reconciled. And now and then 

 a hawk would be accommodating for a 

 time, but would suddenly, without ap- 

 parent reason, go off and refuse to return 

 so long as the blind was near. 



AMUSING EXPERIMENTS WITH A PIPING- 

 PEOVER 



I recall working the better part of an 

 afternoon trying to photograph an old 

 piping-plover at her nest without suc- 

 cess ; but a couple of years later, on a 

 different portion of the coast, I came 

 upon a breeding piping-plover that went 



to the other extreme and permitted a sur- 

 prising degree of familiarity. By simply 

 holding the camera in my hands and 

 standing in the open, without concealment 

 of any kind, I was able to photograph the 

 bird as she approached her nest and 

 brooded her newly hatched young. 



Not being content with this, I put my 

 hat over the nest in the absence of the 

 old plover, and was nearly convulsed by 

 watching the "circus" when she returned. 



She came unerringly back to the nest- 

 site, which perhaps she recognized by the 

 two familiar tufts of beach grass, one of 

 which stood on either side of the nest ; 

 but here between them was a peculiar 

 hillock that had grown up during the 



