118 



BIRD STUDIKS WITH A CAMERA 



placed on a driftwood box, weig-lited with, stones, 

 and completely covered witli seaweed. These eggs 

 were hatching, and the bird soon returned to them ; 

 but before it had come back, ajKjtlior bird in darting 



•«*« 





(JO. Tern's iiust and hatoliing e^i-ii's in Hcawuecl 



by had flown into the thread, springing the shutter, 

 and making the picture '^" of the nest and eggs here 

 given quite as effectively as many a similarly inex- 

 perienced photographer could have done. 



The day but one following — July 30th — these egg- 

 shells had disappeared, and the nest was occupied 

 by two young birds with just enough strength to 

 crawl toward the parent bird when it appeared with 

 food."^ And when their appetites were appeased the 

 parent bird took her place on the nest and brooded 

 them with the care of an anxious hen.*" 



A few yards from this new family were two 

 young who could not have been over four days old, 

 but who had left the nest for the shade of a piece of 

 driftwood. Here they were fed by two birds — doubt- 

 less both parents — whom they seemed to recognize 

 among the other Terns hovering above tlieui. They 



