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.

Ruby-Thr. Humming Bird

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

Ruby-Thr. Humming Bird

From a painting GOLDFINCH ground glass we retired to the other side of the wall. We found that we needed no concealment; as long as we were…

Ruby-Thr. Humming Bird: Cuckoos

Two species of Cuckoos are commonly found in eastern North America, the Black-billed and the Yellow-billed. The former is the most abundant…

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