This is the second of a series of pictorial essays by western bird photographers. Readers will note that the photographic editor chose himself as the subject for this issue (a useful prerogative). I have been photographing birds and other wildlife subjects for more than 20 years. During this time I have accumulated reasonably good portraits of about 1000 species of birds, of which more than 400 were photographed in North America. Many of my pictures have appeared in books and magazines and the culmination of this effort was reached in March 1974 with the publication of The Birds of California (Winchester Press, N. Y.) in which 304 of California’s birds are illustrated.