30 BIRD PARADISE 



every day. Of all the birds, this fellow seems 

 the most nervous. Sitting still is no part of his 

 experience, and he has shown me how he does it. 

 I hear him sometimes in the night ; probably an 

 owl or a fox is the cause of the wakefulness and 

 hurried call. In the spring lot on the old farm, 

 a family of killdeer were on duty every season. 

 Driving the cows home at milking time was sure 

 to be delayed somewhat by attention given to the 

 young killdeer. The tip-up is a sort of first 

 cousin to the killdeer and I sometimes think it a 

 trifle more nervous. His practice of tilting his 

 little body every time he utters his brief note 

 gives him his name. I have often watched these 

 water birds where there was a clean stretch of 

 hard sand, and the ease and swiftness with 

 which they run over it is not excelled by any 

 other bird. 



The little kinglets from the far North looked in 

 upon me this week What bright, active fellows 

 they are and how easily they accomplish their 

 purposes as they go to and fro in the wide pas- 

 tures of the trera. The pair that made me a visit 

 said nothing about the particular places that they 

 had visited during the summer, neither did they 



