. Bird studies with a camera : with introductory chapters on the outfit and methods of the bird photographer . Birds; Photography of birds. THE CHICKADEE 51 focused on the trunk of a tree, the shutter set, and slide drawn. Now to get the bird. None was in the immedi- ate vicinity, but a whistle soon brought a response from some neighboring tree tops, and going beneath them I shortly had called the bird down to a nut in my palm, and with him on my finger started to walk the eighty or more feet to the camera. This, how- ever, was asking too much, and the bird abandoned his moving perch for a bor
. Bird studies with a camera : with introductory chapters on the outfit and methods of the bird photographer . Birds; Photography of birds. THE CHICKADEE 51 focused on the trunk of a tree, the shutter set, and slide drawn. Now to get the bird. None was in the immedi- ate vicinity, but a whistle soon brought a response from some neighboring tree tops, and going beneath them I shortly had called the bird down to a nut in my palm, and with him on my finger started to walk the eighty or more feet to the camera. This, how- ever, was asking too much, and the bird abandoned his moving perch for a bordering row of evergreens, from which one or two more trials brought him within a short distance of the desired spot, and rest-. A Itird ill the liainl. ing my arm against the tree trunk and with the other hand on the trigger of the shutter I called again the two plaintive notes. The bird's faith was still strong. Almost immediately he took the de-. 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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