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Bird Photography Table of Contents
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down from behind the barn, scared me out of my shoes,
stole a weasel skin and the board it was nailed to as I was curing it, and flew
to a nearby tree. I was
an eleven year old city boy, and this was my first encounter with ornithology. I won’t say
it changed my life (I probably would have been a bird-watcher anyway), but it
sure had a major impact. Even at age eleven I had been an avid photographer for
three years, and ran for my Brownie Target 620 camera. By now the eagle was perched on
a telephone pole more than a hundred yards away; and my older friend, then
fourteen, had his twelve-gauge shotgun aimed at the bird. Fortunately for the
eagle, my friend missed by a mile. All I really got was a picture of sky with a
blurry speck flying away. But the bug had bitten. Bird photography had to be in
my future.
Milton Heiberg
Excerpted from The Essentials of Nature Photography
