50 NATURE AND THE CAMERA 



culties to be met with in photographing the parent 

 birds with their young in the nests are not quite so 

 great as when the young have left their nest. To 

 this branch of the work we will devote the following 

 pages. 



PART V 



PHOTOGRAPHING OLD BIRDS AND THEIR YOUNG AFTER 

 THEY LEAVE THE NEST 



Outfit same as Part III. 



PHOTOGRAPHING bird families after they have once 

 left their nests we count the most delightful part of 

 bird photography, the one which has theu greatest 

 possibilities and perhaps the greatest amount of diffi- 

 culties to be overcome ; that is to say, if we do it 

 openly, without making use of any method of con- 

 cealment. By doing it openly we come in personal 

 contact with the birds, and we learn that they are not 

 so wild as generally supposed. If they see that no 

 harm befalls their young through our presence, they 

 will frequently lose all fear and perch on our hands 

 and shoulders. This is, of course, true only of certain 

 birds. Of those that I have tried to induce to come 

 to me, I have had the greatest success with blue- 

 winged warblers, worm-eating warblers, chickadees, 

 and chipping sparrows. In every instance they have 

 shown an utter fearlessness and have come to me even 



