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.

Chipping Sparrow

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

Chipping Sparrow

On June twenty-seventh, a Chipping Sparrow was seen flying through a small growth of pines. This was nothing unusual for Chipping Sparrows…

Chipping Sparrow: Chippy

The male Chippy returned to the nest within five minutes after the camera had been focussed. We used no tent nor concealment of any kind…

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