. Bird-lore . mboo, each 7 feet in length, I split themdown the center and lashed each piece tothree childrens bowling hoops, the topmostand center ones being 24 inches in diame-ter, and the bottom one 27, so as to repre-sent the base of a tree and give the legsof our camera a greater stride. We thencovered the whole with galvanized wire anda coat of green American cloth, which mywife painted to resemble the bark of a this we stuck bits of lichen and mosson to it, and then passed a number of bitsof strong grey thread from the inside to the out. With these we tiedon several pieces of
. Bird-lore . mboo, each 7 feet in length, I split themdown the center and lashed each piece tothree childrens bowling hoops, the topmostand center ones being 24 inches in diame-ter, and the bottom one 27, so as to repre-sent the base of a tree and give the legsof our camera a greater stride. We thencovered the whole with galvanized wire anda coat of green American cloth, which mywife painted to resemble the bark of a this we stuck bits of lichen and mosson to it, and then passed a number of bitsof strong grey thread from the inside to the out. With these we tiedon several pieces of ivy stripped from adjoining tree trunks, so as tomake our contrivance look as natural as possible. How far we suc-ceeded in deceiving the feathered folks of Britain may be judged,when I state that one day a Chaffinch alighted on the broken topof our artificial forest monster and began to rattle off its song justover the unseen photographers head. We should much like to hear of this device being tried by some-. IN THE TREE-TOPS From Keartons Wild Life at Horncupyrighted by Cassell & Co., Ltd. Photographing Shy Wild Birds and Beasts at Home 109 one on American wood birds. Whoever makes and gets laced upinside an artificial tree trunk will discover that a peculiarly dizzyingsensation attends the first attempt or two to stand for any length oftime so encased. For some birds we fix up a mock camera near their nests or feed-ing haunts a few days before we attempt to make a picture. Thiscan be easily done with a small wooden box and tin canister withits lid or bottom blackened to represent a lens. For photographing ground builders, such as Larks, Plovers, andso on, we built an artificial rubbish heap, such as farmers rake up offtheir grass land before laying it down to grow for hay time, and cartoff to form rick bottoms. This we made from an old umbrella, to the ribs of which welashed pieces of bamboo four feet in length. The whole was thencovered with brown holland. To the outside w
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