. The oist . barren mountains and neston cliffs near the extreme top of theridges. These cliffs are rarely over150 ft. high but face very steep talusslopes which try wind and musclegreatly in making the ascent. At nearly every nest there is onespecial rock that is used as a perchand its white-washed side can be seenfor miles. One such rock in the Dra-goons is visible from my windowwithout the aid of a glass tho itsairline distance is over ten miles. As previously remarked, the eagle,when flushed, flies straight away andrarely returns while the collector isaround. I have never had an oldeagle m
. The oist . barren mountains and neston cliffs near the extreme top of theridges. These cliffs are rarely over150 ft. high but face very steep talusslopes which try wind and musclegreatly in making the ascent. At nearly every nest there is onespecial rock that is used as a perchand its white-washed side can be seenfor miles. One such rock in the Dra-goons is visible from my windowwithout the aid of a glass tho itsairline distance is over ten miles. As previously remarked, the eagle,when flushed, flies straight away andrarely returns while the collector isaround. I have never had an oldeagle make any threatening move to-ward me even when the nest con-tained small young. On one occasion I was interested in THE OOLOGIST J ^^^B^^^^^ .1 ^ ^ IfH^^^^H I wt. 1 ^\::: ; ~i^ <^ <^ : -^^ I •i wflBB^H H iiiifiiMiiMriiHr * 1^ 1 wHHBKj?? jf T Typical Nesting cliff showing steep talus slope at its foot, and nest ofGolden Eagle almost in exact center of the picture , —Photo by F. C. Wiliard THE OOLOGIST. View of Cliff and Golden Eagles Nest found March 6, 1910 —Photo by F. C. Willard 6 THE OOLOGIST watching one collecting sticks for itsnest. It would alight in the top ofa half dead juniper tree, walk clum-sily out on a dead branch and breakoff a stick with its beak. It carriedthis stick in its beak as far as Icould see it, passing close by me en-route to its nest. I watched it makeseveral trips, using a powerful glassto assure myself that it really carriedthe sticks in its beak and not in itstalons. A short time there after Iwatched another eagle carrying driednigger-head leaves in its talons. Itwas using them as lining. The rag-ged bunch of leaves hung down prom-inently and an occasional piece drop-ped off as the bird sailed toward itsnest. Each pair has two or more sitesfor a nest which are usually quiteclose together tho sometimes a mileor more apart. One of these sites isthe favorite and is used year afteryear unless they are disturbed. Thenit is deserted for a year
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