84 BIRD STUDIES WITH A CAMERA 
securing, with the aid of a telephoto, a picture® of 
two adult birds feeding well out of gunshot, and 
with the assistance of climbers I reached the upper 
branches of a tree some seventy feet in height con- 
taining five nests whose contents ranged from eggs 
to nearly grown young. With the ball-and-socket 
: clamp the camera was 
fo ting FR F ve ee > | fastened to favoring 
+* " *»« limbs, and after three 
hours’ work several 
satisfactory pictures of 
young in the nest and 
on the adjoining branch- 
es were secured.“ Al- 
though well able to de- 
fend themselves, the 
young assumed no such 
threatening attitudes as 
the American Bittern 
strikes when alarmed, 
from which perhaps we 
may argue that they are 
happily ignorant of the 
dangers which beset 
their ground-nesting re- 
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43. Young Night Herons on branches lative. 
near nest, seventy feet from the As the sun crept up- 
ies ward and the last fishers 
returned, the calls of both old and young birds were 
heard less and less often, and by ten o’clock night 
had fallen on the rookery and the birds were all 
resting quietly. Four o’clock in the afternoon was 
evidently early morning, and at this hour the birds 
