34 BIRD STUDIES WITH A CAMERA 
In matching one’s ability as a hunter against the 
timidity and cunning of a bird, relations are estab- 
lished between the photographer and his subject 
which of necessity result in their becoming inti- 
mately associated. 
Doubtless we shall never know just what birds 
think of the peculiar antics in which the camera 
17. Wood Thrush on nest. 
enthusiast sometimes indulges, but certain it is that 
an attempt to photograph some of the most familar 
and presumably best-known birds will open the 
photographer’s eyes to facts in their life histories 
of which he was previously in utter ignorance. 
