. Camera studies of wild birds in their homes . Birds; Photography of birds. 185 The Yellow-throat finally concluded that it was useless to threaten, persuade or reason with such a young one and started searching for something with which to quiet it. He finally brought a green worm and, with many misgivings and false starts, hopped out on the branch where the large baby-bird stood flapping his wings and coaxing. Birds can move very quickly but I have never seen one jump as sud- denly as Yellow-throat did when the shutter clicked. Be- fore the picture was taken, which happened in one one- hundr
. Camera studies of wild birds in their homes . Birds; Photography of birds. 185 The Yellow-throat finally concluded that it was useless to threaten, persuade or reason with such a young one and started searching for something with which to quiet it. He finally brought a green worm and, with many misgivings and false starts, hopped out on the branch where the large baby-bird stood flapping his wings and coaxing. Birds can move very quickly but I have never seen one jump as sud- denly as Yellow-throat did when the shutter clicked. Be- fore the picture was taken, which happened in one one- hundredth part of a second, lie had made a complete beat of his wings as is clearly shown in the photograph. As no harm had come to him at the first shot, he was not as wary when he approached the second time, and I secured him on the plate without motion. For a month afterward, that little Cowbird was still de- pending upon its small step-father, following him every- where, alwaj's fluttering its wings and begging for more, more, Pig. NEST OF RED-EYED 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 Reed, Chester A. (Chester Albert), 1876-1912. Worcester, Mass : Reed
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