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Identifier: howtostudybirdsp00jobh (find matches)
Title: How to study birds; a practical guide for amateur bird-lovers and camera-hunters
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Job, Herbert Keightley, 1864-1933
Subjects: Birds Photography of birds
Publisher: New York, Outing publishing company
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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full aperture, as the nest was in light shade,and in the descent was careful not to touch thethread and spring the shutter. Finding the spool, Ipassed the thread behind a small branch, so that thepull on the shutter would be directly downward, andlaid out the thread carefully for about a gunshot tomy umbrella-tent, which I had previously pitched be-fore approaching the nest. I put the spool inthrough the peek-hole, then tramped noisily out ofthe woods, and presently sneaked back quietly intothe tent. For half an hour or more all was silent. Thenthe hawk began to scream and fly around. Inspectingthe new situation. Finally she alighted on the edgeof her nest, and stood there motionless, looking andlistening. This was my opportunity, and gradually,without jerking, I pulled the thread taut. Thehawk was not alarmed at the slight grating of theshutter, though she turned her head after It hadclosed, and entered the nest. I let her stay thereawhile to become confident, and then flushed her by
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USING THE ORDINARY CAMERA 195 cllmbin/ to change the plate. Next time she did notstay away so long, and I photographed her carryinga strip of bark to line the nest, and again when shehad settled down to incubate. Then she seemedalarmed at my frequent appearance, so I withdrew,leaving the cloth there so that I might try again ifthe plates should not turn out to be good, which,fortunately, was unnecessary. The above instance may suggest the generalmethod of procedure in * tree-work. Yet in thisand every other department of study and sport onemust be fertile of resource in devising expedients tomeet the new situations which the birds will oftenfurnish us and which are above all rules. The fol-lowing is such an instance: I was wading throughan area of reeds growing from the water near theshore of a large lake in Saskatchewan, northv/estCanada, finding nests of canvasback, redhead, earedgrebe, coot, and other interesting birds, when I heardquite near me a most singular series of hissing an

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