[68 Photography for the Spoilsman Naturalist 



they cannot easily escape him, they compensate 

 for this, to the best of their ability, and show 

 their disapproval of the proceedings of the photog- 

 rapher, by being as unresponsive and tantaliz- 

 ing as it is possible for any animate thing to be. 

 Often the patience of a Job is required to pose 

 them, and I have sometimes spent hours in work- 

 ing over the 

 young alone 

 before an ex- 

 posure was 

 made. At 

 such times I 

 have arrived 

 at the conclu- 

 sion that their 

 chief end and 

 aim in life was 

 to defeat my 

 object. 



That which they most delight in doing is to 

 fall off the twig or branch upon which one is 

 trying to pose them as fast as he can place them 

 there. This seems to be through no inability to 

 stand there, for if they do not actually fall off, 

 and in doing so drag a companion or two with 

 them, they will deliberately hop off, and their 

 favorite place to perch is the camera itself if they 

 have the strength necessary to flutter to it. Any 



Chipping Sparrow feeding Young. 



