With nature and a camera; being the adventures and observations of a field naturalist and an animal photographer . xposea plate, when by an unlucky accident he toucheda rootlet, which made the nest vibrate, and outpoured an angry crowd of insects upon him, andhe was obliged to beat a very hasty retreatminus his camera. A year or two ago I read an account of aGrolden-crested Wren having been caught in aSpiders web, but must confess that I doubted theability of any creature of this kind in the BritishIsles to make a web strong enough to hold evenour smallest bird. Last year I caught a member of
With nature and a camera; being the adventures and observations of a field naturalist and an animal photographer . xposea plate, when by an unlucky accident he toucheda rootlet, which made the nest vibrate, and outpoured an angry crowd of insects upon him, andhe was obliged to beat a very hasty retreatminus his camera. A year or two ago I read an account of aGrolden-crested Wren having been caught in aSpiders web, but must confess that I doubted theability of any creature of this kind in the BritishIsles to make a web strong enough to hold evenour smallest bird. Last year I caught a member of tlie speciesrepresented in the j^icture on the next page, andkept him under a glass globe for some weeks. Hemade a web right across it, and I cut a piece ofcardboard exactly an inch square and, inserting it 360 WITH NATURE AND A CAMERA. SO that it caught the web flat, I then attacheda s^Dring balance and began to pull steadily. Tomy great surprise, although it was only fixed tothe smooth glass on either side and had a spanof ten inches, it sustained a strain of over fourounces, avoirdupois, before giving SPIDERS SNAFJE INDEX. Accident, Curious, to a Moorlien, 22S Laugliable, 66 Remarkable, to a Chaffinch, 184 Whilst Swiniiiiing to a Rock to Photo- giaili CiiniKirants, 350Accidents, (limbing, 124 Minor, 356 to Young Rabbits, ISO Adder, Photograpliing an, 140Adventure, Tale of, 134Ailsa Craig, Puffins on, 268 ,, Very Badv Morning Visit to, 322- 326Alarm, False, 38Animals, Differences in, 238 • Wild, , 3r,4 Ankle, Dcvelopmnit of Clitl-climbers, 44Apartment, old Maids, at .St. Kilda, 34Apparatus, Our Photographic, 334Architecture of Birds Nests, 183 Bagpipes. Effect of, on St. Kildans, 37Bass Rock, How to reach, 265Bear<ls of St. Kilda Men, 32Becking for Grouse, 160, 163Bees never seen at St. Kilda, 128Bell on the Xeck of a Goose, 156Bible, Grace Darlings, 332Biorrach, 124 Bird-catcher, Immortalising a, 281 r -catchers Call-Birds, 278 ,, Care for their B
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