BIRD STUDIES WITH A CAMERA 



when the light is soft and the foliage comparatively 

 motionless, permitting the use of a small diaphragm 

 and a long exposure. 



Young Birds. — The ease with which photographs 

 of young birds may often be secured, the fact that 

 with the camera their appearance and development 

 may be more satisfactorily recorded than in any 

 other way, makes their study by the jihotographer 

 of exceeding importance. Pliotograjihs of young 



birds should of 



I course be accom- 



; panied by notes on 



' food, calls, special 



actions, etc., which 



the camera can not 



well portray. 



The yiiung Ijird 

 is a worthy subject 

 from the moment 

 it leaves the shell 

 until, as far as 

 flight is concerned, 

 it deserves to be 

 with its elders. Wlien possible, series of 

 j)ictures should bf! made showing the rate of growth 

 of the same brood from the period of hatching to 

 the date when the nest is deserted. Circumstances 

 do not, however, often permit of the forming of 

 those ideal series, and we must tlu'refore photograph 

 the young bird as we finil him, either before or 

 after" he has made his initial flight, or as he is 

 preparing for it.'" 



The suggestions naade undi^r the head oi Birds' 



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( lreat-or(■^ll■ll FlycatelitT. 



