FRIENDS IN FEATHERS 



later I could go back, move a foot or two closer and make an- 

 other exposure. Sometimes I only pretended an exposure, but 

 mostly I made one as her position would be different on the nest, 

 or the light better. 



After three days of this I had advanced to within less than ten 

 feet of her, where I made the title picture of this chapter. I kept 

 no account of the number of approaches I made, but I have about 

 twenty exposures of her, possibly half as many times I advanced 

 but did not use a plate. When the brooding fever was past she 

 would not come before the camera at any distance to feed her 

 young, while the nest was so shaded the instantaneous snap of a 

 feeding picture would have been impossible, had she braved the 

 camera. The young posed many times for me, so I have a 

 beautiful series of their development. 



YOUNG DOVES OF APPLE-TREE 

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