The fruit of carelessness 1s care. II 
shutter on the Falcon. Shortly after my last exposure the light 
grew very bad and heavy showers fell. About 6.30 p.m. he began 
whimpering and looking up skywards. Again, shortly before 
7 p.m., when the clouds broke and the setting sun began to stream 
in through the front of the shed, he looked up and yelped im- 
patiently at the Falcon soaring overhead. He waited a few minutes 
and then got off the young carefully and flew away. Then I dida 
very foolish thing. As the sun was coming in through a large gap 
THE YOUNG BIRDS WHEN TWO DAYS OLD. 
Light 3, Plate speed 250, Subject number 100, Stop F11, Exposure 1-50sec. 
to the left, which only had a layer of net over it, and so was bril- 
liantly illuminating the inside of the shed, I thoughtlessly took 
advantage of the Tiercel’s absence to pin a piece of mackintosh 
over the gap, only to find the Falcon standing on B, which was 
six feet off. She was staring at me in alarm, and although I 
immediately “ froze”? and half-closed my eyes, the mischief was 
done, and after jerking her head in my direction three or four times, 
she flew off, screaming the alarm. There was a good deal of calling 
