118 BIRD STUDIES WITH A CAMERA 
placed on a driftwood box, weighted with stones, 
and completely covered with seaweed. These eggs 
were hatching, and the bird soon returned to them ; 
but before it had come back, another bird in darting 
60. Tern’s nest and hatching eggs in seaweed. 
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 20th—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 them. They 
