. Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals. Glacier National Park (Agency : U. S. ); Mammals; Birds. 150 WILD AXIMALS OF GLACIER NATIONAL From Biological Survey. Fig. 54.—Sparrow hawk. fidult was seen at Glacier Park carrying a mouse, while a young one sat in a dead tree containing a nesting hole, and a family of young seen in a burn along the Swiftcurrent trail were being fed in a tree top. Two Avere also seen at St. Mary Lake chasing a goshawk, and one was fourd at Big Pi'airie, on the North Fork of the Flathead. Family PANDIONID/E: Ospreys. Ospret; Fish Hawk: Pandlon hall-
. Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals. Glacier National Park (Agency : U. S. ); Mammals; Birds. 150 WILD AXIMALS OF GLACIER NATIONAL From Biological Survey. Fig. 54.—Sparrow hawk. fidult was seen at Glacier Park carrying a mouse, while a young one sat in a dead tree containing a nesting hole, and a family of young seen in a burn along the Swiftcurrent trail were being fed in a tree top. Two Avere also seen at St. Mary Lake chasing a goshawk, and one was fourd at Big Pi'airie, on the North Fork of the Flathead. Family PANDIONID/E: Ospreys. Ospret; Fish Hawk: Pandlon hall- aetus vafollncnsis.—A note from the sky, followed by a shadow projected over the green water of Lake Josephine, drew my to a large, whitedieaded, brown- backed bird, white underneath to the linings of its long, outstretched wings. As I watched, higher and higher it rose in the sky until it was no longer to be seen in the blue. Had the osprey wandered across from a distant r.'est to investigate the fishing'* It is said to live throughout the park wherever there are fish and the Upjier St. Mary, near Reynolds Creek, the Swiftcurrent above Sherburne Lake, and the southern Waterton Lake all boast ancestral nests. A fish hawk's or osprey's nest is one of the most interesting ornith- ological features of the landscape. Built, as on the Swiftcurrent, on top of a broken-ofi dead tree, where it can be seen for miles around, the great gray mass of sticks grows higher and higher as the j'ears pass, and one who has once made the acquaintance of the family will welcome their return each spring, sure of rare enter- tainment in watching them rear their young. The nest on the Swiftcurrent, easily watched from the high embankment above the creek, was on a dead limby spruce about 40 feet from the ground and was perhaps 4 feet wide by 2^- feet high. When I first went to watcli the nest from the point on the embank- ment that I named Fish Hawk Point, one of the parents—let us say
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