. Bird studies with a camera : with introductory chapters on the outfit and methods of the bird photographer . Birds; Photography of birds. BIRD R0C:K 181. were eacii occupied by a newly hatched young bird— a gray ball of down, so nnlike anything in feathers I had ever seen that, if it had not been for their tiny, young chick- enlike x>ee'p, I should have been inclined to pass it by as a wad of gray cotton .''^ Never more than one of the parent birds, either the male or female, was found on the nest, nor was a single Petrel seen about the Rock during the day. The Pufhns and Petrels are now
. Bird studies with a camera : with introductory chapters on the outfit and methods of the bird photographer . Birds; Photography of birds. BIRD R0C:K 181. were eacii occupied by a newly hatched young bird— a gray ball of down, so nnlike anything in feathers I had ever seen that, if it had not been for their tiny, young chick- enlike x>ee'p, I should have been inclined to pass it by as a wad of gray cotton .''^ Never more than one of the parent birds, either the male or female, was found on the nest, nor was a single Petrel seen about the Rock during the day. The Pufhns and Petrels are now the only birds nesting on the summit of the Rock, not a single de- scendant of the one hundred thousand Gannets which, according to Bryant, occupied the top of the Rock in 1800 now being found there. To-day this species nests only on the less accessible border ledges on the face of the Rock, where they are grouped in colonies. Most of them were incubating, but sev- eral were brooding their young, which ranged in size from the naked, black-skinned, newly hatched chick to those that had acquired the white, swan's- downlike first ; With the exception of two white, black-spotted birds, all the Gannets seen, both on Bird Rock and Bonaventure, were in the adult white plumage, and if, as has been stated, this jjlumage is not gained OG. YtiiiiiK LeacliV Petrel removed from Ijur- row with nesting Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945. New York : D. Appleton
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