Identifier: picturesofbirdli00lodg (find matches)
Title: Pictures of bird life : on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Lodge, R. B
Subjects: Birds -- Pictorial works
Publisher: London : S. H. Bousfield
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Blue Iit (Pants cwnikiis) and Eluer-stump containing Nest 70 Pictures of Bird Life lowered Avith greater ease and speed, and with less noiseand risk of slipping, and it leaves you a hand free. This alone is agreat ad^an-tage. I eouldoften find ause for threeor four hands,and a spareeye or twowould be use-ful. 3Ianipu-lating a whole-plate cameraup a tree, forinstance, oron a Ion gladder, is Acryoften an awk-ward l)it ofwork, and,singlc-lianded,may \ery welltake over an hours hard laboiu- before you can get satisfactorily focussed.To obtain the pliotograpli of tlie Spotted Flycatchers neston page 87, the spike of one leg of the tripod rested on
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Nest of Warsh-tit (Pants paliisins). Hole excavated byBird cut open to show Nest. Bird Life in a Suburban Parish 71 the topmost nm^ of the hiddcr, and was tliere lashed witlistring, the rcinaiiiing two legs beino* lashed to overhangingboughs of the tree—an oak. .As tliese boughs were thin, andmoved freely with the slightest motion, focussing was no easyjob, especially as I had to stand on the ladder and leanbackwards to look into the focussing-glass. The only holdwithin reach being the same thin boughs whicli beld thelegs, the operation was somewhat of a shaky one, and thesubsequent work of putting in the double back and with-drawing the slide had to be performed with no hold atall, both hands being occupied. Under the circumstancesI was rather surprised that the negati\e was any good,especially as the f.32 stop necessitated an exposure often seconds. And this was only an ordinary case, with nospecial difficulties about it. A more difficult as well as amore dangerous work was the ph

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