First Efforts at Bird Pliotography 



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Two Chipping Sparrows' nests. One was in an unusual place, on the Umb 

 of a Norway spruce that projected over the porch roof. I got some very good 

 photographs of this family, which consisted of the parents and three young. 

 The young were hatched on June 6, and they left the nest on June 15. 



One Kingbird's nest, containing three eggs, was on a limb of a willow tree 

 that extended over a pond about ten feet. The nest itself was three feet 

 above the water. 



One Flicker's nest. I could not determine the number of young in this 

 nest, but I knew they were there by their hissing at a shadow over the entrance 

 to the nest. 



This year the Bobolink appeared in the neighborhood of Fredon for the 

 first time in at least four years, if not more. 



Of all the songs of birds I have heard, I like the Bobolink's the best. 



LONG-EARED OWL ON ITS EGGS IN AN OLD CROW'S NEST 

 Photographed by H. and E. Pittman, Wauchope, Saskatchewan. 



