The Photographer's Guide to Attracting Birds eBook by Alan Murphy

The Photographer’s Guide to Attracting Birds is a 51.5MB, downloadable eBook PDF by Alan Murphy. In this ebook, Alan covers techniques on how to attract many families and species of birds into camera range.

This eBook has over 50% (182 pages) more information than his first eBook entitled The Guide to Songbird Setup Photography.

Topics Covered in this eBook

Blinds and Camouflage

• Camouflage suits
• Covering your gear
• Throw-over Camouflage
• Portable blinds
• Homemade Blinds

Attracting Shorebirds Using Bait

• Perspective of shooting
• Equipment for getting low
• Technique for belly crawling
• What kind of bait
• Where to find bait
• Where to place it

Attracting Birds Using Insects

• Where to find insects
• Technique and placement of insects using meal worms

Attracting Raptors Using a Decoy

• Gear needed
• Where to find the gear
• How to build a decoy owl with feathers
• How to set up and mount the decoy owl
• Where to set up your decoy
• Distance of decoy to photographer
• Technique
• How to perch raptors

Attracting Birds Onto Ground Perches

• How to build mounds
• How to dress them up
• How to set up stumps
• How to get birds on your stumps and mounds

Attracting Birds Off Barbed Wire

• Choosing a location
• Tools needed
• Set up and technique

Attracting Birds Using Road Kill

• What kind of road kill
• Different ways of using road kill
• What species to expect
• Using fish for eagles

Attracting Birds Using Audio

• Playback devices
• Apps for bird calls
• What kind of speakers work best
• Speaker placement
• Volume
• What not to do
• Audio technique for grebes, loons and ducks, flycatchers, warblers and other small birds, roadrunners and quail, woodpeckers and nuthatches, grassland birds, shorebirds, and rails

Attracting Birds for Flight Photography I

• Choosing the right feeder
• Where and how to set up
• Camera settings
• Technique
• Working with flocks of birds at your feeder

Attracting Birds for Flight Photography II

• How to suspend fruit, nuts and suet
• Equipment used and how to set up
• Framing
• Camera settings
• Shooting technique
• Multi-flash technique for songbirds
• And more!

Other Photography eBooks by Alan Murphy

• Guide to Songbird Set-up Photography eBook

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