No.l 



No.2 



A Surprised Crow 



By VERDI BURTCH, Branchport. N. Y. 



TO lure Crows close enough to the barn, from which the Pheasants figured 

 in the last issue of Bird-Lore were photographed, for a good picture 

 we nailed several pieces of suet to a board, laid it on the ground- and 

 covered it with snow, leaving the pieces of suet exposed. Then, with C. F. 

 Stone, I retired to the building, and, with both cameras trained on the suet, we 

 awaited developments. Soon a Crow came and alighted some 8 to lo feet from 

 the suet and approached slowly and with great caution, walking around the 

 suet and making feints at it. Finally he made a grab for it, and it was at this 

 instant that we pressed the levers to our cameras, my shutter being released a 

 fraction of a second before Mr. Stone's. As the Crow struck the suet, he 

 jumped back, raising his wings, and my camera caught him before he was 



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