. Wild wings; adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of North America on sea and land . KITTn\AKES ON THEIR NESTS assuring mjself that the exposures were rightly and fullytimed in giving them about one eight-hundredth of a also climbed down the ladders at the southeast corner andtook note of the Murres and Razor-bills. At the top I snappedat birds passing a fixed point ofi some projecting rock, or asthey alighted or left, as well as at passing Gannets. Murresand Kittiwakes nested mostly down below. The afternoonwas devoted to descending the main ladder on the west s
. Wild wings; adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of North America on sea and land . KITTn\AKES ON THEIR NESTS assuring mjself that the exposures were rightly and fullytimed in giving them about one eight-hundredth of a also climbed down the ladders at the southeast corner andtook note of the Murres and Razor-bills. At the top I snappedat birds passing a fixed point ofi some projecting rock, or asthey alighted or left, as well as at passing Gannets. Murresand Kittiwakes nested mostly down below. The afternoonwas devoted to descending the main ladder on the west side,and from it photographing Kittiwakes on their nests, andthen clambering around and up toward the north, where therewas a splendid array of birds, a wonderful sight. 166 WILD WINGS. PARTY OF RAZOR-BILLS, ONE SHOWING PECULIAR STRADDLING ATTITUDE IN FLIGHT Late in the day one of my friends lost his big reflex cameradown the clif?. He was on the ladder, when the snap of hisstrap slipped off and his camera went ricochetting down,smashing to fragments on the rocks below, though the valu-able lens was, wonderfully, quite unharmed. Great changes have been made at this western landing-place. Last summer fifty workmen were employed in blast-ing out a cut into the clift, so that there will be a stairway ofabout sixty degrees ascent. As yet it is unfinished, and onehas to climb three quarters of the way on ladders. There isa little landing-jetty, but it was not yet built far enough out,and the way the surf was dashing over it made one doubt itsusefulness. Next morning, Saturday, June 25, the wind had shifted to TO BIRD ROCK IN AN OPEN BOAT 167 the northeast, and was beating down the sea. It was moder-ate, and very few birds were flying, nearly all being at theirnests. We to
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