. The home life of wild birds; a new method of the study and photography of birds. Birds; Photography of birds. Wild Birds. The nesting bougli is carried to a convenient distance from the tree, and firmly fastened to two stakes, driven into tlie ground and placed in a good light. If the nest is in a tussock in a shaded swamp, the whole is cut out and taken to the nearest well- lighted place; if in the woods, it is carried to a clearing where the light is favorable for study. Again, when a nest like that of the Brown Thrush occupies the center of a dense thorn bush which no human eye can penetr
. The home life of wild birds; a new method of the study and photography of birds. Birds; Photography of birds. Wild Birds. The nesting bougli is carried to a convenient distance from the tree, and firmly fastened to two stakes, driven into tlie ground and placed in a good light. If the nest is in a tussock in a shaded swamp, the whole is cut out and taken to the nearest well- lighted place; if in the woods, it is carried to a clearing where the light is favorable for study. Again, when a nest like that of the Brown Thrush occupies the center of a dense thorn bush which no human eye can penetrate and much less that of the camera, its main supports are cut off, and the essential parts are removed to the outside of the clump or to any favorable point close at hand. If the nest is but five or ten feet up, the main stem is severed, and the nesting branch lowered to the four-foot mark, ^ . â - â ⢠a convenient working height. ; '. ' I wish to emphasize the fact that the nest itself is usually not moved or disturbed, or rath- er that it is moved only with , ,' its supports. The change is one of space relations, which may change with every pass- ing breeze, but the relation of nest to support remains undis- turbed. This sudden displacement of the nesting bough is of no special importance to either old or young, provided certain pre- cautions are taken to be dwelt upon a little later. It is as if an apartment or living room were removed from the fourth story of some human abode to the ground floor, or in the case of the ground building birds as if the first story were raised to a level with the second. The iinmcdiate surroundings of the nest remain the same in any case. The nest might indeed be taken from its bough or from the sward, but this would be inadvisable, chiefly because it would destroy the na- tural site or the exact conditions selected and in some measure determined by the birds- themselves. For an observatory I have adopted a green tent which effectually c
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