. Wild wings; adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of North America on sea and land . they wouldfly before I wanted them to. Once I managed to rig my SCAVENGERS OF THE SOUTH III telephoto lens and focus on one at a moderate distance ona telegraph pole. Unfortunately the bird decided to fly justas I opened the lens for a timed exposure, the result of whichwas a streak of buzzard clear across the plate. The only pos-sible chance I had, that first season, of photographing a Black. BLACK BUZZARD ON STREET IN CHARLESTON Buzzard was when I saw one sitting quietly on a palmettost
. Wild wings; adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of North America on sea and land . they wouldfly before I wanted them to. Once I managed to rig my SCAVENGERS OF THE SOUTH III telephoto lens and focus on one at a moderate distance ona telegraph pole. Unfortunately the bird decided to fly justas I opened the lens for a timed exposure, the result of whichwas a streak of buzzard clear across the plate. The only pos-sible chance I had, that first season, of photographing a Black. BLACK BUZZARD ON STREET IN CHARLESTON Buzzard was when I saw one sitting quietly on a palmettostub, gorged after a banquet on the remains of a large turtlewhich some negroes had killed and cut up, giving a numberof Turkey Buzzards and a black fellow or two a fine one need say that the poor buzzard prefers carrion, if hecan find as nice fresh meat as this. Well, I was sneakingup to the buzzard, and was almost sure of a snap-shot, whena companion fired his gun at a duck which passed over hishead, and away went my subject. 112 WILD WINGS The Turkey Buzzard is quite widely distributed. I haveoften seen it away up in North Dakota, and now and then itappears in Connecticut. One warm August day, in the latterstate, I drove eight miles to see a singular, unknown birdwhich a farmer wrote me he had caught. It proved to bea Turkey Buzzard, slightly wounded, which had now fullyrecovered. Taking it home with me in a box, I kept it inmy stable. It fed voraciously on livers and sounds, drink
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