piping, and once got close enough to make him run again, but never caught up with him. This I spent the next hour walking about piping, occasionally freezing, and trotting hurriedly to feed at something on the ground or to look about her. Toward the end of that time she crossed the main gully and came a little way up toward the nest. I left her there at 10:30, when Pigie started watching. Bird returned at 11:20. Pigie watched until about 12. Started raining about 1:30PM, and there was a stretch of no watching between 12 and 3 PM. I went up with all my waterproof clothes on at 3:15. I couldn't see very well because of the rain, but there were ferds piping all around at a bird on the nest. Heard constant piping coming from the ridge above the nest, answered by piping just a little beyond the ridge. Finally spotted a bird stretching out her wings and flapping them once or twice to get the rain off. I lost her for a brief while during which there was screeching and a flight over the first (not) ridge, but I couldn't really locate it. Next I saw her going up for the left along the top of the next ridge, and she placed herself behind a clump of grass and froze for well over half an hour. Piped