Then it would fly back in to the same perches and call again. It would go to perch one, perch two, perch three in two or three different trees. Having seen that, I was able to mark the trajectory of its flight with some little poles I put in the ground and site their tufts. So pretty soon I knew when to expect the bird and where it would fly. I noticed that the bird was flying through openings in the leafy branches of the tall trees and spotted an opening just before its final calling perch, which was about 10 feet square. So I took a mist net, a Japanese mist net made of nylon that looks like a lady’s hairnet, virtually invisible, and re-strung it on nylon cords so that I could fit it in that space and arrange pulleys on its edges so that if the bird flew into it, I could then lower it to the ground where I could get the bird. Well, I had that all worked out in sketches and then Armstrong and I put the net up in the tree, not easy, and the pulleys. After we got it all set, we sat down on the ground, caught our breath and within an hour and a half, we had the bird, it flew in to perch one, to perch two, and then would’ve flew to perch three.
