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and decay; and the bodies of young birds who had 
met with an untimely death by falling from above. 
It was not altogether a savory place! 
Seating ourselves at the base of an unoccupied 
tree, we had not long to wait before the normal life 
of the rookery was resumed. The young, who while 
we were observed had been silent, now began to 
utter a singular, froglike kik-kik-kik in chorus, and 
40, Black-crowned Night Herons feeding. Telephoto, x 2 at a distance of 
about one hundred and fifty feet. 
the old birds one by one returned. When food was 
brought an increased outcry was heard from the 
expectant youngsters about to be fed. At intervals 
a resounding thump announced the fall of some too 
eager bird, but, in the cases which we investigated, 
the Heron, if fairly well grown, seemed to be little 
the worse for his tumble of from fifty to seventy feet, 
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