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.

The Chickadee

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

The Chickadee

We were wending our way along a narrow country lane, hedged in on either side by stone walls and bushes, when a clear "phe-be," whistled in…

The Chickadee: Chickadees

Fig. g. 6. She was not timid and always lit on the side of the branch nearest the tent, as though to shield her little ones. In order to…

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