GREATER SHEARWATER AND WILSON'S PETRELS 



CHAPTER XI 



OFF CHATHAM BARS 



Yei he ne'er falters, — so, petrel, spring 

 Once fnore o'er the waves on thy stormy wing. 



Cornwall. 



MY very first successful photographs of free wild 

 birds were of "ocean wanderers," taken out here 

 on the bounding main from the unstable deck 

 of a fishing-boat, and with an ordinary' little camera. That 

 I secured any such results at that callow stage of my expe- 

 rience under such conditions is now a marvel to me, after 

 further experience of the dif^culties, even with a complete 

 modern photographic outfit, I must attribute it to consum- 

 mate good luck. 



Minded to have another " try " at the birds of the ocean, 



