Camera Studies of Wild Birds in Their Homes

Two hundred photographs of living wild birds, made when bird photography was new and hard — Chester Reed in the blind, the marsh and the treetop, telling how each picture was got.

Bird Masons

2 pages in this part of Camera Studies with Wild Birds.

Bird Masons

Certain of our wild birds are quite expert at handling, and use quantities of mud in the formation of the cradles for their eggs and young…

Bird Masons: Phoebes

Besides under bridges, Phoebes make their nests in niches in cliffs, under sheds and barns, under overhanging banks, among the stones of…

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