Bird- Nesting with Burroughs 



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of several pictures showing the bird clear of the surrounding leaves. The 

 male proved to be the braver of the two and, to our surprise, visited 

 the nest more frequently than did his mate. 



To find a nest is one thing: to find one that can be photographed 

 quite another; so I may only mention the House Wren who lived well 

 within the gable of Mr. Burroughs' study at Riverby, the Wood Thrush 

 composedly incubating in her nest on a high maple branch stretching 

 across the driveway at her landlord's threshold, and the Orchard Orioles, 

 who, with rare discrimination, chose the ball of leaves at the top of a 

 recently transplanted maple sapling. 



It should, unfortunately, be added that to photograph a nest is but 

 one step in the process of securing a picture of it. The verdict of the 

 dark-room is not always a favorable one, and there is left only the pos- 

 sibility of a new trial. Of this side of bird photography perhaps the less 

 said the better. It may, however, be set down as a result of a patience - 

 testing experience in securing two exposures on an Indigo Bunting feed- 

 ing her young that it is never advisable, at least in bird photography, to 

 make more than one exposure on the same plate! 



MALE SCARLET TANAGER ABOUT TO FEED YOUNG 



