BIRDS ON THE BIOSCOPE

Grey River Argus, 5 November 1907, Page 4

BIRDS ON THE BIOSCOPE

— — : — r-^ . .; • lEntjely ner»v possi'biliitiies in iiiio.t gnaii>(hy in natuire study— 1011)2 may si m' field lore— nvere reve'aleld by J Km-rton, on " Fnida v, , before a .sfipf ■gla.tih.e.Ton. s - at th ; 3 hall cf ;' the 'loaMm of Journafets.. It has bpen knonvn ft sarr?, e ...tjm e tUxat he amid his broitlhe whose i:ho»to>g<riaii:lh>s of birds 'at known' a!il over the world, h>ad bo= exiiKrimein.tiTig; w Kih th e ihoisooipe. ] Uhoir .©niaelaviouir $0 silemoe th 6 malohik they have net 'been 'alito&'ether sboce'si ful, lihou/g:}! they have nvuffled it s /bur Bait ICiey ihlav, c gprt oveif tihe difficult m ado-thor way. • .Mr Kearton has s sucecg'sf'ttlly ao'custamed birds to h: presence tlharf- thisy have aJkwed hi:r } o h.anid), c tihem, and hiave subsecjiuenil y endureid his a/ppanatus >vith ohee,t :u.1n;2,a3. The results are as-toiunidiimi, Ths plhoi'c©ri?.i s !h.e*s hfi,ye chilfly beet may wi'bh young broods. The ficrfs ?eries shewed pipits, : whi:ts-tih'rc(aiti= >u,L!Jfm.Qh : es, forks, sportited flydatahens vrymooks, and lS e'd ß -. e wiairlblenSj in e^ad -a&e tbs i:lar©nibs being en;gia;g;eicl h ceding the youmg. You ootuld lioltov Jvery movement of » ; tihe bird; waifadfc he buLlfindhes brinig out the poudb!x oad in s-miprisinlg qua-ntdty ; ijh c iDarike ■ira .atomg fch-eir Li-fctl e -pathway, arad a,Tefu% -select . eaiah yonai-g hird in urn. Tihe waving of th's giraas, the uif flir..g of th c feat,hen3, ; were .niatora] aaidience aouM dot for/bear. ,a hear lvlhen tlh. e Sedge warbler, firidikg is miate.on the nesifc, 'ixisseid. on the o'ddj -wihioh, sb, c An tujnh passed'- on. tig lie youn^. Tihe seaoiid "serfes Eihiowd imostly S ea birds, many on the '.aTOe Islands naw v happily preise\rved t a body of naturalists; Apnirt . fmm )mie -bslatifuil piiotures' am ' teirne iin igibt, the moist reimiarkialble weire iih'e wmoirants "uneAvailloiwinig" thedor- "fcroid flh curioius conito-rtions, and tihe its buildiinig a' nest on the Bass rock, nt Mt .. K'aaii-ton -kept' ,a climax: Aft c end w e wore sibonyn a ■ sparrow wk feeding its .-yiouo'g. Nioitlhlinjgmjpaira;b]e with .tihis i^bifograph- has en hitiharto iupproaiched, even .by the aemi'can "fakeois":; recently attacked .Mr Roosevelt, if -was •ne;deisis(ary build up a stand db'se to th. c most ■ d; .work, th? 'bioscope, from iwitlhdn few feet. On© .woiaM -fha-nk it imjsibTs, but 'tihe thfcng ■■•was done ; arid :• _ whole long ' pToc«s s of the bind' Eng its prey to pieces on the edge the nost, tfe'e cliamouira-nlg of '• the c ex four . young j the savaigfe ffestsof _ -this did -turd and ite.. curious . oiuritiam, ware shown wStih' -a tiea:!---c viviidneiss beyond destniptiion. Vat Kearton. 'and. his -biroither are 1 oniliy tlie : beiginintnig of .the . expeirimenib. w ar e also arttemptdnig to rekJiuice phioniogTaph , to siilence, tout so far need*; on tfae cyliindeT has always '■c the bird 'sitcp' hist, soncr .to M& W,e may express a hope tlhlait. i ttieh c bioEcope thiey -..will rtexft ait;: pt to s^vaMbw, /wihioh is easiy .; . tio roadh, and some of- the -woio-d-p-eick'-s in order to -show cowolusiyaly- tihe ouiS predigic ; stil\' C pfoleess 'thia't soimfc ; denied.