Image: Pictures of bird life - on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh (1903) (14750281525)

Description: Identifier: picturesofbirdli00lodg (find matches) Title: Pictures of bird life : on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh Year: 1903 (1900s) Authors: Lodge, R. B Subjects: Birds -- Pictorial works Publisher: London : S. H. Bousfield Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: )lifted foot. Two other exposures were subsequently made by thissame bird, to my great satisfaction, as proving that forparticidarly shy birds this method is really practicable in Text Appearing After Image: ^;EST OF Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatits). 250 Pictures of Bird Life obtaining photooraphs, while they are perfectly unconsciousof any danger. Hiding the camera successfully is the chief difficulty. Iftliis can bedone at thenest of anybird, it is al-most a cer-tainty ; but ifits suspicionsare aroused byany very un-usual appear-ance, it willprobably desertits eggs, insteadof returning tothem as usual.AVe liadproof of this,unfortunately ;for a whole daywas gi\en to the nest of aMarsh-liarrier. where the mistake was made of attempting to hide thecamera on its tripod by co^■cring it witli reeds, instead ofplacing it on a heap of reeds and then covering it o\er. Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: Pictures of bird life - on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh (1903) (14750281525)
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Author: Lodge, R. B
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