Nesting; of 
Pi ed-bill 
CTebe 
I was looking "with all my eyes". The Sweet Gale, already 
in half leaf, gave some shelter, of course, but even had it 
been leafless the character of the ne sts was such that 
they might have been easily overlooked at a distance of 
a few yards. 
Later we found a third nest with seven eggs, in a 
more open place among scanty, leafless button bushes. This 
nest was similar in every way to the other two. 
it was a partly finished nest which the boys considered a 
"bluff nest". We saw many of these "bluff nests" elsewhere. 
They were evidently the work of the Grebes but whether 
built to draw attention away from the real nest or merely 
structures which had been abandoned because the sites 
proved for some reason unsatisfactory, I was unable to 
determine. The eggs in this last nest were fresh, for they 
sank when placed in the water, but the set of eight which 
I took were incubated, to judge by the way they behaved 
when subjected to the test just mentioned. 
We did not catch sight of a single Grebe the whole 
forenoon but they were very noisy at times. Almost in¬ 
variably after we had left a nest the birds set up a loud 
outcry near it, in tones, as it seemed to me, of triumph 
over our supposed inability to discover it. 
_ , (_We found a Red-wing 1 s nest with one egg (an early 
Fd-wingr s ne st 
Crackle*s " date), a Bronxed Grackle’s with three eggs (met in 
Bluebird* s " 
button bush only a foot above the water), and a Bluebird's 
(in a dead spole-tree) with five eggs. 
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