Identifier: camerastudiesofw1911reed (find matches)
Title: Camera studies of wild birds in their homes
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Reed, Chester A, (Chester Albert. 1876-1912
Subjects: Birds Photography
Publisher: Boston : W.B. Clarke Co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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n umbrella-tent placed so that the front edgewas about two feet from the eggs. This was covered withsmall pine branches, not to deceive the bird, but so as not toattract much notice should anyone come that way, as theyfrequently did. I soon had a camera focussed carefully onthe eggs and was lying comfortably on the ground awaitingthe return of my hostess. Presently I heard her approach-ing, her calls sounding plainer and plainer each time theywere repeated. Finally she stood on a stone about twentj^feet away, teetering as sandpipers always do, and eyingsharply the new addition to the landscape. 244 Everything was perfectly still and there seemed to beno signs of life about, so she stepped from her elevationand approached, slowly, uncertainly and with many pausesto look anxiously about her. She made a complete circuitof the tent three times, often brushing against its sides andpassing within six inches of the small peek-hole throughwhich I was breathlessly watching. Finally she stopped
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Fig. 205. She stepped carefully between the eggs and settleddmvn. 245

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