RE: [cobirds] JJ Audubon, the benefits of of using bait

… and he didn't eat it probably because it was too small.  Audubon was known to comment on the taste of some birds he shot.

 

Leon Bright, Pueblo

 

 

Hi 

Lucky Hummer, he shot most of his other specimens.

Steve Larson

Northglenn CO

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Hi

 

Many folks wondered how John J Audubon was able to get so close to hummingbirds in order to paint them. 

 

He would fill up a small cup with red wine wait for a hummingbird to be attracted to the color and then watch the hummer sip the wine. After a short wait the now giddy hummer would tumble too the ground drunk, where upon Audubon with great loving care pick it up, gently posed the new feathered model and then quickly penciled an outline of the bird before the hummer woke up and flew away. The hummingbird paid a small price, (hangover) to be immortalized in Audubon's magnificent Birds of America.

 

Bob Righter

Denver, CO  

 

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