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Title: With nature and a camera; being the adventures and observations of a field naturalist and an animal photographer
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Kearton, Richard, 1862-1928
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Publisher: London, Paris, New York, Melbourne, Cassell and company, limited
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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)air it, amongst other things with greenhoneysuckle, and it was very awkwardly situatedfor photographic purposes, we removed it, thinkingthat the bird would go to another and more suit-able tree in the neighbourhood. Our molestation did not, however, interferewith her affection for the situjitioii, and sluspeedily laid the foundation sticks of a new nestclose by where the old one had stood. Tlie third
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SPAFROAZ-HAWKS NEST AND YOUNG. 346 WITH NATURE AXD A CAMERA. or fourth day after she liacl commenced this sliechanged her mind, probably discovering that thetwigs would not bear the weight of her new home,and began to work at a fresh one a yard or twoaway upon stouter branches. In a yery short timeshe had entirely used up the materials from theforsaken site, and a week after the completion ofher last effort it contained four eggs, which Avediscovered by means of our l)it of looking-glass onthe end of a rod. As we were anxious to make a photographshowing the eggs in the nest, and it was impos-sible to do so without fixing something up toenaljle us to get above it, we borrowed a twent)--foot ladder from a friendly farmer. It will be seenfrom the illustration on page 3-1:3—which is froma photograph kindly taken for us by our friend,Mr. J. H. Powell, of Balham—that the ladder isas nearly )3erpendicular as may be. This was theonly position possible, because the branches towhich we lash

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