Method of Bird Study and Photography 3 



roundings, such as a twig, branch, hollow trunk, stem, or what- 

 ever part of a tree the nest may occupy, a bush, stub, strip of 

 sod or tussock of sedge, that is the nest with its imme- 

 diate settings. If the nest, like that of an Oriole, is 

 fastened to the leafy branch of a tree.the nesting bough 

 is cut off, and the whole is then carefully lowered 

 to the ground and set up in a good light, so that the branch with 



Fig. 2. Tent in bushy pasture beside 

 Warbler, shown in detail in Fig. 3. 



st of Chestnut-sided 



the nest shall occupy the same relative positions which they 

 did before. The nest, however, is now but four instead of forty 

 or more feet from the ground. 



The nesting bough is carried to a convenient point, and firmly 



