With nature and a camera

List of Illustrations

• Young greenfinches
• St Kilda village
• St Kildans landing stores
• Wooden lock and details of lock
• Antiquities from underground dwelling
• Entrance to underground dwelling
• St Kilda brooch
• Unmarried woman
• Married woman
• Iron lamp
• St Kildans bartering with the factor
• Dispatch of the St Kilda mailboat
• St Kilda mailboat
• Facsimile of portion of a letter received by the author per St Kilda mailboat
• Facsimile of portion of a letter received by the author per St Kilda mailboat
• Soa lamb
• Ankle development
• Cleit for storing fuel or hay
• Driftwood bored by Teredos
• Quern stone
• Dugan's Cave
• Finlay McQuien catching fulmars
• A good catch
• Wrens' eggs. The upper and larger eggs are those of the St Kilda Wren, the lower ones are those of the Mainland Wren.
• St Kilda Wren
• Mainland Wren
• Nest of St Kilda Wren
• Puffin noose
• Finlay McQuien catching puffins
• The Strong Man's house
• Ferguson fowling on Borrera
• At the foot of the cliffs, Borrera
• Gannet and young
• Gannets
• Kittiwakes nesting on Doon
• Young shags
• Young Razorbill
• Guillemots on cliff
• Finlay Gillies catching puffins
• Puffin gin
• Martin's Fulmar
• Fulmar petrel on nest
• Stack Biorrach
• Horsehair rope
• St Kildan fowler
• Puffin
• Highland gamekeeper and some of his trophies
• Adder basking
• Young merlins
• Kestrel in trap
• Stoat in trap
• Hedgehog
• Figure-of-four trap
• Young raven on nest
• Buzzard in trap
• Buzzard's larder
• Young grouse
• Grouse's nest in rushes
• Cat trap
• Grouse netting
• Snaring grouse
• A couple of veterans
• Grouse shooter in butt
• Pheasant hatchery
• Pheasant on nest
• Partridge on nest
• Partridge (photographed on the Westmorland Hills after a storm)
• Hare-net on gate
• The hare caught
• Rabbit burrow (closed)
• Rabbit burrow (open)
• Rabbits at play
• Hen chaffinch hanged by a hair
• Wren going into her nest in rick
• Kestrel's eggs in a raven's old nest
• Oyster-catcher's nest
• Pair of ospreys and their nest
• Robins' nests in odd situations
• Flycatcher's nest in bullet-hole
• Tree creeper
• Bullfinch on nest
• Gray wagtail on nest
• Clutch of tree sparrow's eggs
• Shrike on nest
• Coal tit
• Young ringed plover on shingle
• Young ringed plover on black cloth
• Young curlew crouching
• Young curlew standing up
• Young peewit
• Blackbirds at home
• Chiffchaff feeding her young
• Nightingale on nest
• Whitethroat on nest
• Young carrion crows in nest
• Young spotted flycatchers
• Young wood wrens
• Young blue tit
• Jay and young
• Pied wagtail's nest and young in old pail
• Pied wagtail going into inverted old pail to feed her young
• Young thrushes
• Spider's web covered with hoar frost
• Thrush on sleeping perch (photographed by magnesium flashlight)
• Cock sparrow
• Nesting-box
• Sparrow catchers
• Fully-fledged swallows sleeping in old nest (photographed by magnesium flashlight)
• Barn owl (photographed by magnesium flashlight)
• Red underwing moth (photographed by magnesium flashlight)
• Cormorant and young
• Cormorants and guillemots on the Saltees
• Young sandwich tern on sand
• Young sandwich tern on black cloth
• Terns at home
• Lesser black-backed gulls
• Eider duck on nest
• Wild duck on nest
• Young eider duck
• Kittiwakes
• Young black guillemot
• Guillemots
• Gannets on the wing
• Gannets on Bass Rock
• Common gull's nest
• Puffins at home
• Nest of black-headed gull
• Young great black-backed gulls
• Scoulton Mere
• Razorbill and egg
• Clap-nets and dummy starlings
• Bird-call
• Call-bird cage
• Bird-catcher with clap-nets on Brighton Downs
• Playstick and lure bird
• Bird-catcher's receiver
• Bird-catchers and their plant
• Finch trap
• Wild chaffinch studying bird-catcher's dummy
• Catching chaffinches
• Nightingale trap
• Robin in bird trap
• Snail on grass-stem
• Decoy pipe from tail end
• Entrance to decoy pipe
• Cage for decoy ducks
• Zigzag screen: duck decoy
• Peep-hole in screen
• Decoy-man making his survey
• Dog's hole
• Decoy-man killing wild duck
• Wild duck on her nest
• Hebridean peat diggers
• Crofter's hut, Outer Hebrides
• Landlord of the highest inn in England
• The highest inn in England
• Essex gamekeeper
• Grace Darling's nephew Robert
• The Longstone lighthouse
• Our outfit
• Young peregrine falcons
• Method of descending a cliff
• Descending a big cliff
• Carrion crow's nest
• Photographing a nest in a tree
• Sparrow-hawk's nest and young
• Photographing a kingfisher's nesting hole in a river's bank
• Swallows on telegraph wire
• Method of photographing birds' nests situated in high hedges
• Water vole
• Sparrows and chaffinches on the snow
• Photographing kingfisher
• Kingfisher
• Spider's snare