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Quail on a mossy rock placed next to a bowl of food on a TV tray

CHAPTER 3 A Few Tricks of the Trade

I often use temporary mini-feeders on the back side of medium and large perches. I fill a plastic salsa container or the cut-off bottom of a soda bottle, and use some wood screws to drill it onto the back side of a branch where it can’t be seen in the image of the bird. It’s important to check your set-ups through your camera before attempting any photography. From experience, there has been too many times where I have looked through the lens to spy the corner of a feeder cup sticking up into the image.

Mossy branch with feeder cups

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