Jan. ,1914 DIRECT APPROACH AS A METHOD IN BIRD PHOTOGRAPHY 
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water at Laguna Blanca, a small, semi-artificial lakelet of some sixty acres, near 
Santa Barbara. In endeavoring to stalk them, the birds became so thoroughly 
frightened that they were on the point of quitting the neighborhood, and were 
Fig. 9. The Ibises; the first shot at 1,5() feet 
Fig. 7. Two J ackers: White-faced Geossy Ibises at 
Laguna Blanca; taken at a range of about 50 feet 
only induced to reconsider by my own ostentatious withdrawal in the automobile. 
Noting from a distance of half a mile their gradual return and final precipitation, 
I turned back and in a circle of the boulevard surrounding the lake discovered 
