THE CHICKADEE 



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focused on the trunk of a tree, the sliutter set, and 

 slide drawn. 



Now to get the bird. None was in the immedi- 

 ate vicinity, but a wliistle soon brouglit a response 

 from some neig'hl)oriug tree tops, and going benoatli 

 them I sliortly had called the bird down to a nut in 

 my palm, and with him on my finger started to walk 

 the eighty or more feet to the camera. Tins, how- 

 ever, was asking too much, and tlie bird abandoned 

 his moving perch for a bordering row of evergreens, 

 from which one or two more trials brought him 

 within a short distance of the desired spot, and rest- 



2B. A liirJ in tin"' liancl. 



ing my arm against th(^ tree trunk and with the 

 other hand on the trigger of the sliutter I called 

 again the two plaintive imtos. The bird's faith was 

 still strong. Almost immediately he took the de- 



