Concord, 
1893. 
July 16. 
Actit is raacularia . 
Mass. Nest. 
A Spotted Sandpiper nested in our strawberry bed (at the 
Buttrick's). The eggs hatched before the pickers came but 
the old bird remained about and day after day kept flying 
back and forth past the strawberry patch uttering a monotonous 
yip , yip and showing the greatest concern at the presence of 
children who were picking the berries. I heard the birds'), 
plaint up to within two or three days and yesterday Mr. But- 
trick found two young nearly grown and able to fly feebly in 
the vegetable garden which adjoins the strawberry bed and is 
also on the high ground. Prom this it appears that the Spot- 
ted Sandpiper does not always (if often) lead her young to 
water until they are fully grown (i.e. where they have been 
hatched in upland fields). 
