Photographer's Guide to Attracting Birds by Alan Murphy
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!
• 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!
