. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. HUNTING BIRDS WITH A CAMERA 193. "two's company" For ages the Owl was regarded by superstitious people as an ill-omened bird of prey. You may judge for yourself whether they arc spooky or just spoony. These Barn Owls are the night police about the farm to keep mice and gophers in check. The thick growth of tales made an ex- cellent mattress. By spreading sleeping- bags on top of a high btmch and rolling in carefully, we generally had a good bed for the night. In the early part of the evening we were two or three feet
. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. HUNTING BIRDS WITH A CAMERA 193. "two's company" For ages the Owl was regarded by superstitious people as an ill-omened bird of prey. You may judge for yourself whether they arc spooky or just spoony. These Barn Owls are the night police about the farm to keep mice and gophers in check. The thick growth of tales made an ex- cellent mattress. By spreading sleeping- bags on top of a high btmch and rolling in carefully, we generally had a good bed for the night. In the early part of the evening we were two or three feet above the surface, but by morning we had sunk down just about to water level. The largest bird colonies of this region are located on the west side of the lake. In one place, for half a mile, the Western Grebes, \\'hite Pelicans, Farallone Cor- morants, Great Blue Herons, California and Ring-billed Gulls, and Caspian Terns had combined, as it were, to form one of the most extensive bird colonies we had ever seen. To the east of the Klamath lakes are other large alkaline bodies of water where water fowl abound—Summer, .Vbert, Goose, Warners, Harney, and Malheur lakes. In the spring of 1908 we started into the Malheur country, which is his- toric ground for a bird man. In the early seventies the well-known ornithol- ogist, Captain Charles Bendire, was sta- tioned at Camp Harney, on the southern slope of the Blue Mountains. He saw the wonderful sights of the nesting multi- tudes on Malheur and gave the first ac- count of the bird life in that region. On the south side of the lake, at the site of the historical old Sod House, a large spring rises at the base of the grav-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Washington, D. C. : National Geographic Society
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