. Familiar studies of wild birds : their haunts and habits . irds are generally more satisfactory, as there arenumerous difficulties attending the hunting ofbirds with a telephoto outfit. When the young are hatched, making pic-tures of various phases of their bringing up,the feeding, etc., is the most interesting ofpastimes. An amount of patience and skillmay be required to secure pictures with thebirds in natural attitudes and free from working with one nest day after day, andfollowing up developments, gradually gettingthe birds accustomed to the camera, friendlyrelations, with profi
. Familiar studies of wild birds : their haunts and habits . irds are generally more satisfactory, as there arenumerous difficulties attending the hunting ofbirds with a telephoto outfit. When the young are hatched, making pic-tures of various phases of their bringing up,the feeding, etc., is the most interesting ofpastimes. An amount of patience and skillmay be required to secure pictures with thebirds in natural attitudes and free from working with one nest day after day, andfollowing up developments, gradually gettingthe birds accustomed to the camera, friendlyrelations, with profitable results to the photog-rapher, may be established. 85. !V BOSTON RICHARD G. BADGER THE GORHAM PRESS COPTKIGHT, 1920, BY RiCHARD G. BaDGEB All Rights Reserved Made in the United States of America The Gorham Press, Boston, U. S. A. A REMINDER THE real haven of the natiirahst is outin the fields and woods of the for those city people, who do notfind the country within their immediate reach,the city park offers a great deal more thanmay be thought, in the way of material fornature study. On an early spring morning, the parks ofmany of our large cities literally swarm withmigrating birds. A wide range of species, toa hundred, or even more, may be counted ona single morning, if one rises early and issharp-sighted. The observer must also havea fair knowledge of the commoner species ofbirds, or identify them by means of field glassesand guide book. Every true naturalist or bird lover counts Familiar Studies of Wild Birds it more or less of an epoch in the spring, whencertain of the birds first appear. For instance,the morning when he
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