. The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs . rs are killed byimitation sportsmen and settlers boysas they make a good mark for a 22rifle. This is a pity as they are inter-esting and useful little birds. The egg collectors seem to have abad name with the wise and learnedmen ?) who frame our game laws, butI would be willing to bet that onesportsman, or one pet cat or a birddog running loose in the breeding season will destroy more bird lifethan twenty average collecting oolo-gists. I have collected eggs here forthree years and in that time did notshoot half a dozen birds for i
. The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs . rs are killed byimitation sportsmen and settlers boysas they make a good mark for a 22rifle. This is a pity as they are inter-esting and useful little birds. The egg collectors seem to have abad name with the wise and learnedmen ?) who frame our game laws, butI would be willing to bet that onesportsman, or one pet cat or a birddog running loose in the breeding season will destroy more bird lifethan twenty average collecting oolo-gists. I have collected eggs here forthree years and in that time did notshoot half a dozen birds for identifica-tion purposes. As for the eggs taken,every collector knows that when a setof eggs is taken most birds, by a wiseprovision of nature are still able tolay a second, or even a third set andraise a brood just the same. How-ever, as long as our bird and gamelaws are made by men whose knowl-edge of woodcraft would hardly enablethem to tell a muskrat from a beaver,or a crow from a black bird the col-lector will be up against harsh and al- M 60 THE OOLOGISf. American Hawk Owl on Nesting Stub.—Photo by A. D. Henderson together unnecessary has little to do, however, withwhat I started to write about, that in-teresting and talkative little bird, theHawk Owl. On one occasion when loading somehay cocks which had been left outand snowed under a Hawk Owl fol-lowed us around the meadow lookingfor mice as the cocks were it perched on the hayrack another occasion when driving toEdmonton, I noticed one which hadjust caught a large white weasel orermine. I wanted the weasel andtried to scare it into dropping it byshooting but there was nothing doingand it flew away with its prize. In looking for the nest of any par-ticular bird which you have not takenbefore it is a great help to know, fromthe writings of other collectors, some-thing about the breeding habits of thebirds. The date of nesting, the nature ofthe locality preferred by the birds andt
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