AMONG THE WarTeER. FowL 
were propitious, | drew in what slack there was and 
pulled the thread taut. The Gulls showed no signs 
of having heard the shutter, but it had sprung all 
right I found 
when I walked 
up. 
In the same 
manner I pro- 
ceeded withthe 
work, taking a 
few more shots 
from the same 
position, then 
focusing on a 
single nest at 
close range, or 
“THEN FOCUSING ON A SINGLE NEST AT CLOSE RANGE’ on a couple of 
RING-BILLED GULL ON NEST nests, and again 
on a rock where the Gulls frequently alighted. In 
the latter case I got a fine exposure on two birds 
on top of the rock. The Gulls soon became much 
more confident, and would return to their nests as 
soon as I retired, often standing so near the camera 
as to brush against it. Of course the exposures had 
to be instantaneous, and cloud areas bothered me a 
good deal. The Cormorants proved to be too shy 
to be photographed. When the boat returned with 
accounts of wonderful finds on the other islands, all 
too soon ‘for me, 1 had what proved) later teybeua 
very imteresting series) of Gull pictures, the tnunts 
of a hard day’s work. If anyone thinks it easy, I 
would like to put him on a glaring beach in a broil- 
ing sun, without a trace of a breeze, surrounded 
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