BIRD LIFE IN WASHINGTON 
103 
AN OUTING 
There is probably no one who does not 
wish lie were acquainted with the birds. 
Bnt birds are so timid, their movements 
so rapid, that work among them is slow 
and difficult; however, with watchful eyes 
and patience we may all do something. 
The place for an outing for lovers of 
birds is an open woodland on the shore of 
some body of water. 
A wooded peninsula bordered on one 
side by a large beach and on the other 
by a tule marsh is an ideal place. 
Here the upland birds meet the shore 
birds and the shore birds mingle their 
cries with those of the water birds. 
Hanging from the tules are the homes 
of the Redwinged Black Bird and the 
Tule Wren. They are land birds. 
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The Killdeer and the Spotted Sand 
Piper deposit their eggs on the ground 
near the edge of the beach. In a tree in 
the slough, the Northwest Coast Heron 
makes his home. The Killdeer, the Heron 
and the Sand Piper are shore birds. 
Like tiny rafts upon the water out 
among the tules are the homes of the 
Grebes. The Grebes are water birds. 
I recall a certain small peninsula upon 
which I have spent many an hour with 
the little Spotted Sand Piper. 
