HOW WILD BIRDS ARE PHOTOGRAPHED.
4_ —- Of recent years there has been some amount of competition among photographers to secure pictures of small animals and birds in their native haunts, and various ingenious methods have been adopted for approaching these timid creatures with the camera. Mr. Pike, of Winchmore Hill some years ago adopted a plan which was most effective in practice. He baited a twig with a piece of fat or other tempting morsel, and focussed his camera upon it, the apparatus being so arranged that directly the bait is seized a shutter is released, and a picture is taken automatically. The system can obviously be extended so as to include many other creatures besides birds, and with a little extra ingenuity it can. be made available at night by the addition of a flash- | light apparatus. A picture of a deer | crossing a stream at night was taken, by a contrivance, of this description ; | and there are stories,* erf a more 6r ! less legendary character, of burglars ’ being caught in flagrante delicto by a similar aosaev. - •
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Northland Age, Volume IV, Issue 42, 22 June 1908, Page 8
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178HOW WILD BIRDS ARE PHOTOGRAPHED. Northland Age, Volume IV, Issue 42, 22 June 1908, Page 8
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