The Bookshelf for boys and girls: Nature and Outdoor Life part 3 (1912)
University Society, New York · New York : University Society · leaf 47
s cameevery day to feed. Whilewaiting beside the pond Ihave seen a flock of duckssail down over the wateronly a hundred feet from me,then turn and, coming back,repeat the performance. Asthey swooped down with setwings and making a loud,swishing noise, they were afine sight, well worth anhours… … Male. Female. WOOD-DUCKS. The wood-duck is the most domestic of all the tribe, and is very apt to nest in some most unex-pected place, close to human habitations. I know of one nest in a knot-hole of a large maple onlysix feet from the ground, right on a well-traveled road near a house.—Herbert K.…
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