. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. ADVENTURES WITH BIRDS OF PREY 121. HALF ANGRY, HALF SCARED, IS THIS MONTH-OLD RED-SHOULDERED HAWK The Craigheads caught and trained one of these birds, but found that it was too sluggish in flight to be desirable for falconry. When hunting, red-shouldered hawks perch on a dead tree or other convenient lookout post, or soar in wide circles while watching for prey. three-quarters of an hour we located both the ravens' and the duck hawks' nests within seventy-five yards of each other. The falcon was sitting close, incubating her e
. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. ADVENTURES WITH BIRDS OF PREY 121. HALF ANGRY, HALF SCARED, IS THIS MONTH-OLD RED-SHOULDERED HAWK The Craigheads caught and trained one of these birds, but found that it was too sluggish in flight to be desirable for falconry. When hunting, red-shouldered hawks perch on a dead tree or other convenient lookout post, or soar in wide circles while watching for prey. three-quarters of an hour we located both the ravens' and the duck hawks' nests within seventy-five yards of each other. The falcon was sitting close, incubating her eggs, and did not fly until the loose end of our rope dangled in front of her. She then left her eggs with a startled cry and dived at us as we hurried down the rope. Her screaming and diving only served to guide us to her four mahogany-colored eggs. We left the hawk to return to the eggs while we hunted the north face of the cliff for the ravens' nest. We found several old nests before locating the one containing four scrawny, bedraggled-looking young that seemed to be all mouth and voice. The wise old ravens had slunk off and did not give their nest away by futile diving and screaming, as did the bolder duck hawks. In photographing birds, we have found it pays to gain their confidence step by step, so instead of immediately building a blind near the ravens' nest we roped our cameras on the cliff near by, camouflaged them with stones and moss, and arranged to snap the shutter by means of a string running to a blind at the foot of the cliff. The northern raven of the Eastern States is one of the shyest, rarest, and smartest of birds, so it was with a great deal of foreboding and doubt that we entered our blind to await the arrival of the old raven. The damp cold numbed our cramped limbs and the minutes dragged away like. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these
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