34 B1ED STUDIES WITH A CAMERA 



In matching one's ability as a hunter against the 

 timidity and cunning of a bird, relations are estab- 

 lished between the photographer and his subject 

 which of necessity result in their becoming inti- 

 mately associated. 



Doubtless we shall never know just what birds 

 think of the peculiar antics in which the camera 



17. Wood Thrush on nest. 



enthusiast sometimes indulges, but certain it is that 

 an attempt to photograph some of the most familiar 

 and presumably best-known birds will open the 

 photographer's eyes to facts in their life histories 

 of which he was previously in utter ignorance. 



