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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



AN BOUNCE V1EN I*:— Mr. Charles I. Reid of Millersburg, Pennsylvania, is to edit this depart- 

 ment. Correspondence invited. 



Young Owl Photographed At Night. 



( hi account of their nocturnal habits, 

 very few photographs are taken of owls 

 in their wild state, but in this case the 

 phi tographer succeeded in taking a flash- 

 light of this younger member of the owl 

 family by focussing his camera on the 

 fence post that served as a nightly visit- 

 ing 1 place for this wise looking fellow. 

 A flash light set off by means of a wire 

 fr im a set of dry batteries serve;! to take 

 the picture at tie vital moment. 



The Sport of Hunting with the Camera. 



To many people the word hunting 

 means but one thing, the killing and des- 

 truction of the object of the hunt. The 

 real sport in hunting is not in the killing 

 of wild animal life, but consists of the 

 joy of the tramp through fields and 

 woods and the matching of human cun- 

 ning against that of wild life. A suc- 

 cessful picture of a wild animal or bird 

 is much more difficult to obtain than a 

 correspondingly successful killing, and 

 gives much better satisfaction to both 

 hunter and hunted. It is the keen plea- 

 sure of the sport that gives it such a 

 great fascination to all true lovers of na- 

 ture, for what could give one more plea- 

 sure than to search the fields and woods 

 for subjects for the camera and to bring 

 back trophies that will always recall the 

 pleausures of securing them. Then too, 

 the sport can be practiced the w hole year 

 'round, and each season will bring new 

 subjects and interesting changes in the 

 old ones. The photographing of the lit- 

 tle animals that inhabit our woods and 

 fields and their nests and haunts requires 

 skill and patience, together with a real 

 love for wild nature. The beautiful nests 

 and eggs of our native birds and the 

 pictures of the parent birds and their 

 young are all subjects that will provide 

 sport fit for kings. The editor of this 

 department will at all times do every- 

 thing possible to encourage the substitu- 

 tion of the camera for the gun, and will 

 be clad to be of any assistance to others 

 interested in this fascinating sport and 

 method of nature studv. 



THE YOUNG I'.ARRED OWL. 



The thoughts and associations of sum- 

 mer and autumn are now as completely 

 departed from our minds as the leaves 

 are blown from the trees. Some wither- 

 ed deciduous ones are left to rustle, and 

 our cold immortal evergreens. Some 

 lichenous thoughts still adhere to us. — - 

 Thoreau. 



