. Animal snapshots and how made . Southern States, probably more on account ofthe faihng food supply than because of the cold weather. I wish to illustrate more fully the protective colora-tion and the apparent tameness of the woodcockby my experience in photographing one. I asked afriend who lived in the country to notify me when hefound a woodcock nesting. About the twentieth ofApril I received word that he had found one; so thenext day I joined him, and with a long-focus cameraand twelve plates we set out to photograph the wood-cock. The nest was in a hedgerow between two fieldsnear a swamp


. Animal snapshots and how made . Southern States, probably more on account ofthe faihng food supply than because of the cold weather. I wish to illustrate more fully the protective colora-tion and the apparent tameness of the woodcockby my experience in photographing one. I asked afriend who lived in the country to notify me when hefound a woodcock nesting. About the twentieth ofApril I received word that he had found one; so thenext day I joined him, and with a long-focus cameraand twelve plates we set out to photograph the wood-cock. The nest was in a hedgerow between two fieldsnear a swamp, and as we neared the spot my friendstepped forward to point out the sitting bird. Butalthough he had been there three times, it was severalminutes before he was able to find her, so closelydid her markings harmonize with her friend has the experienced eye of a hunter, hasknown the woodcock for forty years, and has seendozens of nests; so he was puzzled to know why it /-•^•^^ „ 11^ i— m0 First Photograph. Second Photograph


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