The Snowy Plover 
The first nesting occurs in late April or early May, and the second in 
middle or late June. The second nesting is often undertaken in company 
with Least Terns (Sternula antillarum browni), if such are to be found. 
This association is often very close, insomuch that Mr. O. P. Silliman, 
observing the birds at Monterey Bay, believes that it is individual. A 
tern’s nest means a plover’s nest within a dozen feet or less, with an inter¬ 
val of fifty feet or so separating this consociation from the next paired 
pairs. In the Carpinteria nesting of 1915, I found two eggs of the tern 
which had been deposited in a nest already containing three of the 
plover. But this was undoubtedly a hostile move on the tern’s part, 
rather than a consummated friendship. 
Hatching day is a day of manifold anxieties in ploverdom. The old 
Taken near Santa Barbara Photo by the Author 
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nest, which may have attracted unwelcome attention by now, is forsaken 
as soon as possible. One by one the babies are spirited away in different 
directions, and when they are left under some sort of cover they are 
