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Once I discovered a bearded hen and tried 

 five weeks to catch her with the lens, and never 

 saw her but twice during that time. The next 

 season I found her again in company with three 

 other hens. I called them within ten or twelve 

 feet. This time it had been sunlight all day, 

 but just a minute before they came near enough 

 a thin haze covered the sun. Still, I pressed 

 the button and got a dim negative of her and 

 of one of her playmates, and have not seen her 

 since. 



To successfully photograph wild turkeys the 

 greatest care must be taken in having a blind 

 perfectly natural in appearance. Once in the 

 blind, do not move; never mind the wind; wild 

 turkeys cannot smell you any farther than you 

 can them, but they can outsee anything except 

 the heron, crane, and hawk, and you must get 

 within fifteen or twenty feet of them in the bright 

 sunshine, or no picture. Find their scratching 

 places and hide behind a log, or make a blind of 

 brush and green leaves, etc. Be sure to hide 

 all the camera save the disk of the lens, and they 

 will see that nearly every time. I have had 



