. Woodland, field and shore : wild nature depicted with pen and camera . oung oaks about standing somethirty feet high. On the vcr\ first one examined Isaw a little nest about ten or twelve feet up, builtclose to the trunk, amongst small thin branches. Istruck the tree with a stick, and to my delight aGoldfinch flew from the branches. I ascended thetrunk, and there saw one of the most beautiful littlenests it has ever been my lot to look upon, made offine green moss, lined with white willow-down, andcontaining three eggs. As sometimes happens, whena good nest is found one is not able to photog
. Woodland, field and shore : wild nature depicted with pen and camera . oung oaks about standing somethirty feet high. On the vcr\ first one examined Isaw a little nest about ten or twelve feet up, builtclose to the trunk, amongst small thin branches. Istruck the tree with a stick, and to my delight aGoldfinch flew from the branches. I ascended thetrunk, and there saw one of the most beautiful littlenests it has ever been my lot to look upon, made offine green moss, lined with white willow-down, andcontaining three eggs. As sometimes happens, whena good nest is found one is not able to photographit owing to no plates being available. It was so in 174 WOODLAND, FIELD, AND SHORE this case ; my companion and I had exposed all the plates we had,and were manymiles from home,or from w^here ourstock could be re-plenished. But itis always a riskto put off photo-graphing a nestuntil another day;many a time haveI re;retted doino;. thi ino to the eggs being takenby some unscru-pulous collector, orby an egg-stealingbird. However,there was nothingfor us to do butto leave this oneuntil next day,when we returnedwith a supply was mentioned that the nest was about ten feetfrom the ground, on a slender tree, without any iITE XEST. A MIDDLESEX COPSE 175 large branches that would offer support for thecamera. We tried to borrow a ladder from afarm-house near, but they had not one that wassuitable ; we could get nothing more than a smallpair of steps and some rope, but with these it wasimpossible to raise the camera high enough for ourpurpose. At a distance of about one hundred yardswas a number of felled trees, and we dragged three ofthe smaller ones to the spot and endeavoured to makean enormous tripod. It was heavy work, but at lastwe had the satisfaction of seeing the result of ourlabours in a very cumbersome-looking stand. Bymoving each leg of our improvised tripod a fewinches at a time we at
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