LOOKING OVER THE EI ELDS 



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BELTED KINGFISHER FLYING FROM NEST. 



Exposure of 1/1,000 of a second. 

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ticals to that effect. But this state of 

 affairs was not brought about without 

 much argument, which is still going 

 on, for a little lapse on the part of the 

 educators and the slaughter might com- 

 mence anew, and some truly beautiful 

 birds be lost to the world forever. 



One of those who are helping on the 

 interest in our birds, through his il- 

 lustrated talks to children, is Mr. How- 

 ard Henderson Cleaves of the Public 

 Museum at St. George, Staten Island. 

 Mr. Cleaves was born in Illinois about 

 twenty-five years ago of New England 

 parents, and early took an interest in 

 photography. Being of an inventive 

 and enquiring turn of mind the camera 

 offered the way to much experiment. 

 There was the ever pleasing lure of the 

 fields and woods where little harmless 

 tricks could be played on unsuspecting 

 wild creatures, whereby their portraits 

 might be secured, often, be it confessed, 

 in anything but studio-like postures. 



At one time Mr. Cleaves placed an 

 artificial goldfish of heroic size just 

 beneath the surface of the water of a 

 Staten Island pond about which an 

 osprey was wont to circle. After 



much patient waiting, the bird finally 

 dropped on the fish, the string was 

 pulled amid much excitement and the 

 picture secured. Most any one can 



OSPREY RETURNING TO A TALL P.EACII NEST. 



Gardiner's Island, New York. 



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