A PIPING PLOVER AND YOUNG "PERMITTED A SURPRISING DEGREE OE FA MIEIARITy" : 



MARTHAS VINEYARD, MASS. 



"By simply holding the camera in my hands and standing in the open, without conceal- 

 ment of any kind, I was able to photograph the bird as she approached her nest and brooded 

 her newly hatched young" (see text, page 8) 



PIPING PEOVER 



Pliotos liy IluwanI II, Cleaves 



"Proved herself to be the most devoted shore-bird mother that I had ever met. . . . 

 I put mv hat over the nest in the absence of the old plover, and was nearly convulsed by 

 watching the 'circus' when she returned. ... To hear her offspring and yet not be able 

 to find or see them was quite inexplicable. Round and round the hat she ran, piping away in 

 the meantime and now and again stopping to listen— a peep from a youngster being sufficient 

 to start her off again" (see text, page lo). 



