. The oist . ing in the stub and onJune 29th a set of Flicker eggs in the old Sparrow Hawk nest. May 19, 1915. Marsh Hawk. Whiletramping around in a weedy patch onthe edge of the Skopie Slough wherea pair of Hawks nested last year, Iflushed a female from a nest and fiveeggs. On May 25th after a heavy threeday rain the nest was found in a footand a half of water with eggs 25 feet from here an AmericanBitterns nest was found with threeeggs which had also been flooded out. Out of the nine Red-shoulderedHawk nests found this year by afriend and 1, we were only attackedonce w
. The oist . ing in the stub and onJune 29th a set of Flicker eggs in the old Sparrow Hawk nest. May 19, 1915. Marsh Hawk. Whiletramping around in a weedy patch onthe edge of the Skopie Slough wherea pair of Hawks nested last year, Iflushed a female from a nest and fiveeggs. On May 25th after a heavy threeday rain the nest was found in a footand a half of water with eggs 25 feet from here an AmericanBitterns nest was found with threeeggs which had also been flooded out. Out of the nine Red-shoulderedHawk nests found this year by afriend and 1, we were only attackedonce while climbing to them. All thenests were found near Highland Park,Lake County, Illinois. Colin Campbell , 111. A Wisconsin Herony. Some twenty-five years ago I discov-ered a fair sized herony of the BlackCrowned Night, and the green. It hadjust been shot up by some boys andthe nest robbed; dead birds lay allabout. I later obtained a few nicesets from here of each species. There THE OOLOGIST 27. Dr. W, F. Blackmon, President Florida Audubon Society, with youngBald Eaglets in his hands —Photo by Oscar E. Baynard 28 THE OOLOGIST was maybe a hundred nests of bothkind. The boys kept shooting thebirds and breaking the eggs until theyentirely broke it up and I thought Ihad seen the last of the herons in thislocality, because mainly the scarcity ofsuitable nesting sites; so, if youplease, imagine my agreeable surprisewhen on Christmas Day, 1915, 1 dis-covered a new herony in a piece ofvirgin timber, containing about thirtynests, all in good condition and appar-ently of the Black Crowned W. H. vosBurgh. A Young Red-tail (Buteo borealis)certainly expressed wisdom when sheselected the main flock of a giant ashas a nesting site and would have re-mained in undisturbed possession hadshe displayed an equal sagacity in va-cating at our approach but she calmlysat upon her lofty domicile regardlessof the noise made by application ofirons and clubs
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