. Bird-lore . her, and as the boat approached,the old bird with its bill seemed to push the young one underthe water before it dove itself. If this bit of the domestic life of these two Loon families hasinterested you as much as it did me, I shall feel amply repaid forthe thirty-two miles I had to drive each time I visited them. Photographing a Bluebird By ROBERT W. HEGNER With Photographs from Nature by the Author. ^uring the severe cold of January and February,1895, most of the Bluebirds were thought tohave perished. So it is with the spirit of agenuine Audubon that we hail their return in e
. Bird-lore . her, and as the boat approached,the old bird with its bill seemed to push the young one underthe water before it dove itself. If this bit of the domestic life of these two Loon families hasinterested you as much as it did me, I shall feel amply repaid forthe thirty-two miles I had to drive each time I visited them. Photographing a Bluebird By ROBERT W. HEGNER With Photographs from Nature by the Author. ^uring the severe cold of January and February,1895, most of the Bluebirds were thought tohave perished. So it is with the spirit of agenuine Audubon that we hail their return in ever in-creasing numbers each succeeding spring. How sadlywe should miss these little friends may be judged bythe great commotion among ornithologists caused bytheir supposed extinction. In order to have more thana mere remembrance of their habits, I set out one day in the summerof i8g8, at Decorah, Iowa, to obtain photographs of them in theirhaunts, and secured two interesting negatives of the female, as shown.
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