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Title
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“Cut Off Lake”
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Date
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1901
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Creator
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Frank Shoemaker
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Description
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Frank Shoemaker - Omaha, Lincoln, and Nebraska Narratives
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Identifier
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321301-1901
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Transcription
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3 So our picture-taking began. It was slow work, for one or both birds would occasionally jump into the reeds and scamper away, with plenty of speed, and had to be recaptured. I arranged a makeshift shade by tying willow tops together, in wich we gave the birds frequent respite. — Most of the nine plates exposed were spoiled by sudden thrusts of their necks; but we got some good photographs. It was well worth the hot, muddy effort, merely to see these odd young things and to study their behavior; and to bring away satisfactory pictures, to convey to others a part of the story, made the rather hectic endeavor not only a success, but in retrospect, a definite pleasure. Despite the fact that it may have been done in earlier notes, I shall define here the two types of nests which are built by the least bittern. The first type is built always above still water, among reeds, tules, or sedges. It is more definitely cupped, though still flat, then nests of the second type. It is constructed entirely of short and some long pieces of dead tules, sometimes with flat dry reeds included. It is placed just above water level, as is also the habit of the coots, gallinubes, and rails. Its situation lowin masses of the plants named above affords excellent concealment. The second type, almost always above water, is a tree nest, in more open placement, with no pretense of concealment. Here it is invariably in willows, at height varying from three to a maximum of
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Rights
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“Cut Off Lake”