. Bird studies with a camera : with introductory chapters on the outfit and methods of the bird photographer . Birds; Photography of birds. 100 BIRD STUDIES WITH A CAMERA marsh, and after gaining an immense height disap- peared, this time toward the east. "As the sun rose over the Palisades few birds were on the wing, but great fioclis were perched in the reeds on the banks of the creek, and as in my canoe I drifted slowly up to them, they seemed unmindful of my pres- ence, when, as though at a signal, they arose as one bird, and after hov- ering lightly overhead returned to the reeds. &q
. Bird studies with a camera : with introductory chapters on the outfit and methods of the bird photographer . Birds; Photography of birds. 100 BIRD STUDIES WITH A CAMERA marsh, and after gaining an immense height disap- peared, this time toward the east. "As the sun rose over the Palisades few birds were on the wing, but great fioclis were perched in the reeds on the banks of the creek, and as in my canoe I drifted slowly up to them, they seemed unmindful of my pres- ence, when, as though at a signal, they arose as one bird, and after hov- ering lightly overhead returned to the reeds. " The tide was low, and along the shore sev- eral Sora Rail were feed- ing, and, as carried by the tide I floated noise- lessly by, they paused in their search for food, and with tails upraised re- garded me with evident astonishment. A mink approached the shores of a small inflowing stream, hesitated, then plunged in, crossed, and disap- peared in the tall grasses on the opposite side. The air was vocal with the calls of Red-winged Black- birds, the chink of Bobolinks, and the rattle of Swamp Sparrows. " On a reed-grown point below was another great army of Swallows. With surprising regularity a. 49. Tree Swallows in Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945. New York : D. Appleton
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