GREATER SHEARWATER AND WILSON’S PETRELS 
CHAPTER XI 
OFF CHATHAM BARS 
Yet he ne'er falters, — so, petrel, spring 
Once more o'er the waves on thy storiny wing. 
Cornwall. 
M y 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 difficulties, 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. 
