66 PHOTOGRAPHY FOR BIRD-LOVERS. 



to the side of the camera on which the lever-arm 

 of the shutter is placed. Then, if the line runs 

 from the hide past the camera, round the wheel and 

 back up to the lever, the " pull " is in the right 

 direction. If the tripod happens to be widely 

 spread, and the camera low, the end of one of the 

 legs is a convenient place into which to screw the 

 pulley. 



It is easy, when working at a distance and not 

 in a line with the axis of the lens, to mistake the 

 position of a bird at the time of releasing the 

 shutter. We have to bear in mind that our 

 standpoint is not the camera's, and what is then 

 a " full face " to us may be a side-view to it ; 

 we have to watch the bird's movements critically 

 through our glasses and at once translate what 

 we see into the view-point of the lens. 



Birds' Inability to Count. 



As bird-lovers we are sorry to have to admit it, 

 but we must confess that, in our opinion, the 

 intelligence of birds is, in many ways, small in the 

 extreme. All their other senses seem to have 

 been sacrificed in the development of those of 

 sight and hearing, but the point which concerns 

 us immediately is their inability to count. We 

 trade upon this deficiency very largely when 

 working by concealment. However well the hide 



