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Green Heron (con.)

Great Blue Heron 


Spotted Sandpiper. Solitary Sandpiper
Killdeer.

Kinfisher

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334. Hylocichla mustelina

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up by Hanger's point but did not get a shot. It was very uneasy and kept flying along for short distances with dangling and lighting in the long grass. While I was bailing out the canoe it disappeared.

A Great Blue Heron flew over and I watched it light along the creek. It came down with  dangling feet tipping first to one side and then to the other and finally letting its legs hang clear down and stretching out its neck it sailed a few feet and alighted. It was watchful and only lowered it head for an instant at a time, quickly raising it and looking around. Sandpipers were very scarce. The water had covered all their feeding grounds. I only saw three or four each of the spotteds and solitaries and no Killdeer at all.

Saw a Kingfisher go after a fish but it missed. It made quite a splash when it hit. A Young one was sitting on a fence post when a Phoebe flew toward it. The Kingfisher quickly threw its wings back threateningly and rattled and the Phoebe flew on. Probably it had had experience with Flycatchers before.

August 11, Thursday.

334. Hylocichla mustelina. A. Wetmore. Half Moon Woods, North Freedom, Wis, iris brown. Maxilla & tip of mandible dusky