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Title
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Sioux County, June 17-July 2, 1911
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Date
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June 17-July 2, 1911
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Creator
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Frank H. Shoemaker
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Description
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Regional Narrative
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Identifier
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321301-1911
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Rights
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investigation. On the way down in the
morning I visited the region, and the
bird. flew from the ground as I ap-
proached the place from which we had
stertled it the night before. The
x dead top of a storm-beaten pine,
G twisted and missheven, ley on the canyon
side, and under this I found two baby
poor-wills, the queintest little erea-
tures in the whole world. They cuddled
close to the ground and lay with closed
eyes, motinniless and shapeless, until
touched, when their eyes suddenly opened
and with wide~spread wings they weaved
from side to side in the oddest way, ut-
tering an almost inaudible note somewhat
suggesting the note of alarm which the
mother bird had sounded when scared from
the "nest." Of course there was no
nest; the little ones rested on the pine
needles, with half an ege-shell still by
them.
It did not take me long to get my
cameras and engage myself with this de- (gage “Y
lightful vhotogravhie subject. Bite Sa ee ee ae
spite of reveated efforts to vhotogravh the mother bird, I did not suecsed.
I set the camera focused on the young birds and ready for exposure of the*
plate, and on cautiously returning found that the mother bird had moved
the family several feet away, not liking the strange object in her door-
yard. A revetition of the effort produced identical results, and several
trials to get a kodak shot at the mother bird were thwarted by her watch-
fulness; on each occasion she flew before I reached the desired noint.
Put the young were food subjects, and I secured several photogranvhs.
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