. Wild wings; adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of North America on sea and land . ^ Buzzard is also the more graceful flyer,and, though dark of plumage, is of a browner cast than theothers. The Black Buzzard is a heavier, more stocky bird,and has to flap more and harder to keep itself afloat. Both of these birds, though tame enough about humanhabitation, are somewhat shy off in the wilds. So, on my firstreal acquaintance with them, in Florida, I was rather hardput to it to secure good photographs. I would meet themalong the East Coast Railway, perched on telegraph pole
. Wild wings; adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of North America on sea and land . ^ Buzzard is also the more graceful flyer,and, though dark of plumage, is of a browner cast than theothers. The Black Buzzard is a heavier, more stocky bird,and has to flap more and harder to keep itself afloat. Both of these birds, though tame enough about humanhabitation, are somewhat shy off in the wilds. So, on my firstreal acquaintance with them, in Florida, I was rather hardput to it to secure good photographs. I would meet themalong the East Coast Railway, perched on telegraph poles,or on stubs by the Indian River, and generally they wouldfly before I wanted them to. Once I managed to rig my SCAVENGERS OF THE SOUTH III telephoto lens and focus on one at a moderate distance ona telegraph pole. Unfortunately the bird decided to fly justas I opened the lens for a timed exposure, the result of whichwas a streak of buzzard clear across the plate. The only pos-sible chance I had, that first season, of photographing a Black. BLACK BUZZARD ON STREET IN CHARLESTON Buzzard was when I saw one sitting quietly on a palmettostub, gorged after a banquet on the remains of a large turtlewhich some negroes had killed and cut up, giving a numberof Turkey Buzzards and a black fellow or two a fine one need say that the poor buzzard prefers carrion, if hecan find as nice fresh meat as this. Well, I was sneakingup to the buzzard, and was almost sure of a snap-shot, whena companion fired his gun at a duck which passed over hishead, and away went my subject. 112 WILD WINGS The Turkey Buzzard is quite widely distributed. I haveoften seen it away up in North Dakota, and now and then itappears in Connecticut. One warm August day, in the latterstate, I drove eight miles to see a singular, unknown birdwhich a farmer wrote me he had caught. It proved to bea Turkey Buzzard, slightly wounded, which had now fullyrecovered. Taking it home with me in a box, I kept it inmy stable. I
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