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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in-ious beak, and allow the young birdsto insert tlieir beaks as far as the crop and feed like youngpigeons. This I watched repeatedly. Another Aery noticeable fact was tliat tlie orange mark ontlie throat, described simply in the Miimial of BritisJi Birdsas • gular region orange, gave them exactly the appearanceof having had their throats cut ; for the colour is just tliatof dried blood, and the shape and position resemble a gashwith a knife across the throat. After lea\ing them, the trap was set at a Purple Heronsnest not far off. which held four eggs. But the water wasdeep, and the difficulty in hiding the camera very great.After wasting half a day. we failed to score any success : and.to make it worse, my large sheath-knife fell out into fixe feetof water, and I failed to recover it. That made the secondknife lost in the depths of this meer. A pair of spectacleswas also dropped, but these I fished up again : and a boxfull of exposed plates also fell overboard—these, of course.
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248 Pictures of Bird Life were not wortli any attempt at recovery, as the water wouldliave utterly spoilt them. After this another nest was foiuul better situated for ourpurpose, where the camera could be effectually hidden ona heap of piled-up reeds level with tlie water and co\eredover with wet sedge and rubbish. The nest beino- made ofreeds, a dry reed-stem was used as the lever of the switch,and was placed across the nest. After leaving this for afew hours, we were delighted to find, on our first visit to it,that the bird had returned and had sprung the shutter. The first impression was tliat, instead of tlie Heronherself being recorded on the plate, we had succeeded inphotographing a )Marsh-harrier in the act of stealing eggs ;for we had left fom^ ^^g^ hi the nest, and foiuid but three,while the reed-stem serving as a switch was broken shortoff, and the nest itself smeared with blood. In connectionwith these marks of disorder, the sight of a JNIarsh-harrierrising from the reeds a

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