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is done almost entirely by daylight, chiefly before 

 10 in the morning and after 3 in the afternoon ; 

 only during very bad weather, when the snow is 

 becoming dangerously deep, or when extreme cold 

 threatens to freeze and so close the rivers, do they 

 move much at night. One of the sights which 

 I live in hopes of seeing is that of the south-bound 

 animals crashing through the frozen rivers in a 

 driving snowstorm, for then they have no fear of 

 man and would be easy targets for the camera. 

 Their one idea at such times is to reach their 

 southern destination where they can, by constant 

 work, procure sufficient nourishment from the 

 snow-bound country. This winter they will soon 

 be there, for the greater part of the migration has 

 already passed, perhaps the largest migration that 

 has occurred for many years. Fully two thousand 

 have passed within my sight during the two weeks 

 that I have been on Sandy River. They have 

 treated me well, and if the weather had only been 

 brighter, I should have had excellent pictures to 

 show. This is the sixth consecutive year that I 

 have spent at least part of the southerly migration 

 season along Sandy River in the hopes of opportu- 

 nity to photograph these beautiful creatures. But 

 hitherto luck has always been against me. Two 

 years ago, I spent six long weeks watching and 

 hoping day by day that the migration would begin, 

 but something had gone wrong with it, and it was 

 not until well into December that the great herds 

 of south-bound animals came along, and by that 

 time, of course, the stags had shed their horns. 

 Other times 1 have spent two to four weeks watching 



