. Bird lore . TUFTED TITMOUSE 142 Bird- Lore The day after Christmas, a biting cold day, I had the camera set by goclock. Forty minutes later I took my first feeding-station picture—a BrownCreeper. There were two on the post at the time, but one was out of range ofthe lens. A Downy wanted the food but feared the staring Cyclops that guardedthe treasure. He would swoop down and make me believe that he was aboutto alight, when off he would go, only to make another similar swoop. Thesingle Creeper was the only picture I took that day. \ On December 30, two White-breasted Nuthatches tried the same
. Bird lore . TUFTED TITMOUSE 142 Bird- Lore The day after Christmas, a biting cold day, I had the camera set by goclock. Forty minutes later I took my first feeding-station picture—a BrownCreeper. There were two on the post at the time, but one was out of range ofthe lens. A Downy wanted the food but feared the staring Cyclops that guardedthe treasure. He would swoop down and make me believe that he was aboutto alight, when off he would go, only to make another similar swoop. Thesingle Creeper was the only picture I took that day. \ On December 30, two White-breasted Nuthatches tried the same maneuversas the Downy, keeping me on the jump for naught. A Brown Creeper was fuss-. BROWN CREEPER ing around also, but refused to get in a position worth wasting a plate then something happened. A hurried chattering cry—a flutter of wings—something landed on top of the post and was gone again, flitting up into thetree behind which I was hiding. Then I saw it to be a Tufted Titmouse. Butthat is not all. I had pushed the button in that fraction of a second that hewas on the post-top. The most that I could hope for on the plate was a blurof wings. On developing it I was more than delighted. Later a Hairy trieddiving for the food, but without success for either him or me. That ended myyears experiences. It began to snow a little, and I could not have stood stilla moment longer because of the intense cold. The next trip taken when the sun made bird photography possible wasJanuary 6. Numbers of Chickadees were around the empty post when Iarrived, and picked up the crumbs that dropped from my hand as I stuffed the Photography at Feeding-Stations 143 crack with su
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