. Bird studies with a camera : with introductory chapters on the outfit and methods of the bird photographer . Birds; Photography of birds. 84 BIRD STUDIES WITH A CAMERA securing, with the aid of a telephoto, a picture*" of two adult birds feeding well out of gunshot, and with the assistance of climbers I reached the upper branches of a tree some seventy feet in height con- taining five nests whose contents ranged from eggs to nearly grown young. With the ball-and-socket clamp the camera was. fastened to favoring limbs, and after three hours' work several satisfactory pictures of young in
. Bird studies with a camera : with introductory chapters on the outfit and methods of the bird photographer . Birds; Photography of birds. 84 BIRD STUDIES WITH A CAMERA securing, with the aid of a telephoto, a picture*" of two adult birds feeding well out of gunshot, and with the assistance of climbers I reached the upper branches of a tree some seventy feet in height con- taining five nests whose contents ranged from eggs to nearly grown young. With the ball-and-socket clamp the camera was. fastened to favoring limbs, and after three hours' work several satisfactory pictures of young in the nest and on the adjoining branch- es were ;"*^ Al- though well able to de- fend themselves, the young assumed no such threatening attitudes as the American Bittern strikes when alarmed, from which perhaps we may argue that they are happily ignorant of the dangers which beset their ground-nesting re- lative. As the sun crept up- ward and the last fishers returned, the calls of both old and young birds were heard less and less often, and by ten o'clock night had fallen on the rookery and the birds were all resting quietly. Four o'clock in the afternoon was evidently early morning, and at this hour the birds 43. Ycning Nigjht. Ilurons on brandies near nest, seventy feet from the 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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