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Frank Michler Chapman

Bird studies with a camera; with introductory chapters on the outfit and methods of the bird photographer

Paperback (RareBooksClub.com Sept. 13, 2013)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...from the stream they shake their plumage. Soon the air is filled with Swallows, all streaming toward the roost with increasing swiftness. Many birds, however, as though waiting for some tardy comrades, rest by the way, perching on telegraph wires should they cross the marsh, or when these are wanting, on the tips of the reeds. They invariably face the wind, and when it is from the west the last rays of the sun striking their white breasts make them appear like snowy flowers crowning the reeds. Suddenly, with a rush, they whirl onward to the roost. Thus far the exact location of this roost has defied my search. I have, however, roughly denned the bounds of that section of the marsh in which it is placed by observation stands at which the Swallows flew north and south respectively, and somewhere between the two I still hope to discover the Swallows' sleeping haunts. The following description of their departure from the marshes in the morning is abstracted from my journal, under date of August 15, 1886: "A cool, clear morning, with a light northwesterly wind. I reached the marshes shortly before five o'clock, when they appeared to be deserted, not a Swallow being in sight. At two minutes of five the first birds were observed, then flock after flock they came until at five the air was filled with hurrying forms, flying at varying altitudes toward the north. "Suddenly, from the meadows near me there arose a vast cloud of Swallows, doubtless birds which had come from farfher south in the marsh before my arrival. Steadily they mounted upward, until having attained a height where with a strong glass they appeared faint dots against the sky, they slowly winged their way northward. "All the time the meadows were alive with birds...
ISBN
1230006230 / 9781230006239
Pages
42
Weight
3.4 oz.
Dimensions
7.4 x 0.1 in.

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