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.

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The Bluebird

A sweet melodious warble, a flash of the brightest of blue and there upon the decayed end of an apple bough, sits one of our very best of friends, the Bluebird. As we watch, he disappears within the opening, surely fortune smiles upon us, for the nest hole is barely above the head, an ideal place for using the camera. True, the nest is on the north side of the tree and consequently in rather a dark place, but we are prepared for such emergencies and in a few minutes, the reflection from a

Fig. 63. BLUEBIRD AT ITS NEST-HOLE.
Fig. 63. BLUEBIRD AT ITS NEST-HOLE.
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