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 Woodland Apartment

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

The Woodland Apartment

The woodland apartment was accidentally discovered because of a feud existing between two of the families residing therein. One bright June…

The Woodland Apartment: Downy

Downy Woodpeckers are usually peaceable birds. But one thing could cause the strange actions of this one, a nest. Sure enough, about half…

The Woodland Apartment: Jack

This is "Jack" as we soon got in the habit of calling him. On the other side the hand of man manifested itself in two shining ribbons of…

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