. Bird studies with a camera : with introductory chapters on the outfit and methods of the bird photographer . Birds; Photography of birds. 84 BIRD STUDIKS WITH A CAJIERA ⢠â !""«» *» -<r% securing, with tlie aid of a teleplioto, a picture'"' of two adult birds feeding well out of gunsliot, and with the assistance of climbers 1 reached the uj^per l)ranclies 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
. Bird studies with a camera : with introductory chapters on the outfit and methods of the bird photographer . Birds; Photography of birds. 84 BIRD STUDIKS WITH A CAJIERA ⢠â !""«» *» -<r% securing, with tlie aid of a teleplioto, a picture'"' of two adult birds feeding well out of gunsliot, and with the assistance of climbers 1 reached the uj^per l)ranclies 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 secured.'""'^ 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 ^^^J^^S^siwiiTi!! "^^^ argue that they are yW^J^^K^^Sk^^iW 4| li'ippily ignorant of the My ^S^jM^^^^^|B dangers which beset ^ '^-^Vi^SBi0^9H their ground-nesting re- hitive. As the sun crept up- ward and the last fishers returned, the ca,lls of both old and young birds were heard less and less f)ften, and by ten oYdnck night had fallen on the rookery and the birds were all resting ((uietly. Four o'clock in Uu^ afternoon was evidently early morning, and at this hour the birds. 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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