Image: Bird lore (1922) (14747962941)a

Description: Identifier: audubon24nati (find matches) Title: Audubon Year: 1899 (1890s) Authors: National Audubon Society Subjects: Birds Birds Ornithology Publisher: New York (etc.) National Audubon Society Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Text Appearing Before Image: here were about 50nests of Least Terns, and possibly 12 of theBlack Skimmer on the bar at the north endof the Island. Most of these were destroyedby high water. Also one nest each of WardsHeron, Black-crowned Night Heron, andBlack Vulture were found on the high partof the Island. On a bar just north of ThreeIslands I found a colony of Black Skimmerswith sixty oil.) nest., with eggs and manyready for eggs, but the entire colony was sub-merged and destroyed by high water later.Deer Island, on which a large colony ofGulls and Terns nested last year, was entirelyunder water and I rode over it in myboat. I visited a great deal of the surroundingcountry and Islands, as far north as TopoHay, but was unable to find any otherrookeries or to find any Spoonbills or Pelicansbreeding. Large flocks of Sooty Terns were noliced, and in one 1 ase then- were .11 least 17 young birds, but I was unable to 1 in,l whether they were breeding in the Laguna. R( spectfully submitted, (Signed) K. I>. Camp. n Text Appearing After Image: I IM riMORE ORIOLE, ADUL1 MALI •_.. BALTIMORE ORIOLE, ADULT FEMALE 8 BALTIMORE ORIOLE, IMM.vrrm: FEMALE 2?trb=Hore A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE STUDY AND PROTECTION OF BIRDS Official Organ of The Audubon Societies Vol. XXIV November—December, 1922 No. 6 The Trailer-Blind de Luxe By GUY A. BAILEYWith Photographs by the Author OXCE upon a time I sat on a cake of ice for hours with the thermometerhovering around zero waiting for Ducks to come in near an improvisedblind of canvas to feed upon some corn that had been dropped in thewater near the shore. These Ducks were Redheads, Canvasbacks and Scaups.They sat out in the lake apparently afraid of the blind. A few of the bravestones would leave the raft and swim toward the blind, then, becoming suspicious,they would return to their more timid companions. A few minutes later somemore could be seen working gradually toward the blind. After three or fourhours of watchful waiting, the whole raft moved in and began to pitch andand di

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