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Bird - Lore 



Some of the trees held as many as four nests, and it was near one of these 

 and another tree with three nests that I dimbed a tree and pulled my camera 

 up after me. I had hardly got settled into a fairly comfortable position when 

 the Herons began to return to their nests. A bird came to each nest, and 



PERCHED ON OR ABOVE THEIR NESTS" 



five birds came to the four-nest tree. From my vantage-point I could see far 

 out over the forest. A few birds were sitting on their eggs, their long necks 

 folded over their backs, but most of them were standing in their nests or on 

 a branch at one side or above them. They would stand thus motionless for a 

 long time, or sometimes after alighting would stand still for ten or fifteen 

 minutes, then walk slowly down the limb to the nest, using the wings to help 



