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.

Blue Jay

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

Blue Jay

Blue Jays always seem like old friends to me. I have seen a great many of them under all conditions of life. I The Blue Jay usually nests…

Blue Jay: Kitty

Who first gave this bird a name and why it was given, nobody knows, but almost from the first day it was known as Kitty. Part of a room was…

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