180 Photography for the Sportsman Naturalist 



from her offspring and commenced a series of 

 calls as though telling him to come to her. This, 

 I think, is what she really was doing, for, much 

 to my disgust, he immediately jumped from the 

 perch and fluttered to meet her. I returned 

 him to the branch, and after two repetitions of 

 this act the old bird concluded to come to him ; 

 and I finally succeeded in obtaining some very 

 good photographs, but it occupied over five hours 

 of my time to get them. 



If an old bird is very obdurate and does not 

 come to her young inside of a couple of hours, it 

 is well to remove the camera for a short time and 

 allow her to feed them. This prevents them from 

 becoming too hungry and consequently restless, 

 and the old bird will often return more quickly 

 after the camera has been replaced. 



Always, in handling young birds, use the great- 

 est care, for they are easily injured by being held 

 too tightly. 



The full-fledged young by themselves make in- 

 teresting pictures, and should we capture them 

 when they have just left the nest they can be taken 

 home and reared easily. Then we can photo- 

 graph them at will, up to the time when they are full 

 grown, after which we can let them go back to their 

 native wilds if we have no further use for them. 



Some photographers use a small cage made of 

 mosquito netting and tapering to a funnel, the neck 



