Photographing Birds and their Young 169 



place seems to offer greater attractions to them 

 than that identical twig upon which you wish to 

 place them. They will jump from it repeatedly, 

 as fast as you can place them there, and then look 

 at you in a self-satisfied manner, as much as to 

 say, " I won't stay 

 there and what are 

 you going to do 

 about it?" And 

 the only thing to 

 be done is to keep 

 your patience as 

 well as you may 

 until you obtain 

 their final consent 

 to stay where you 

 put them, which 

 will only be after 

 they have grown 

 tired of objecting. 

 Even then the 

 excitement occa- 

 sioned by the ap- 

 proach of the parent bird with food is usually 

 enough to cause one or two to fall to earth. 



A young bird, however, is interesting from the 

 time he leaves the shell, and is a featherless mite 

 all neck and head, until he is fully fledged and 

 ready to launch himself forth upon the world. 



Young Flickers. 



