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Chipping Sparrow by Eliot Porter - Using Nests for Bird Photography
To get close to song birds many photographers today use food, water or recorded song.
In the distant past artists like John James Audubon used a shotgun to get the bird in hand to see details.
A few decades ago artists like Eliot Porter would search for bird nests and then set up blinds to photograph them at close range with large format film.
This picture shows the cover of Eliot Porter's Birds of North America: A Personal Selection.
The book has outstanding color images showing what can be accomplished with this technique.
Does anyone use bird nests for song bird photography today?
By-the-way, Amazon has used hardbound copies of this book for less than a dollar.