. American birds, studied and photographed from life . The Eagle of Mission Ridge 241 climb the eagles tree and get pictures in the swayingbranches. We found the golden eagle a valuable inhabitant ofany cattle-range or farming community. His food con-sists almost entirely of the ground squirrels that are soabundant through the California hills and cause such dam-age in the grain-fields. Once when we looked into the nestwe found the remains of the bodies of four squirrels lyingon its rim. At each visit we examined the food remainsabout the nest, and I am sure that a very large amountof the eagl
. American birds, studied and photographed from life . The Eagle of Mission Ridge 241 climb the eagles tree and get pictures in the swayingbranches. We found the golden eagle a valuable inhabitant ofany cattle-range or farming community. His food con-sists almost entirely of the ground squirrels that are soabundant through the California hills and cause such dam-age in the grain-fields. Once when we looked into the nestwe found the remains of the bodies of four squirrels lyingon its rim. At each visit we examined the food remainsabout the nest, and I am sure that a very large amountof the eagles food, if not all, consisted of squirrels. Thehills in many places were full of their burrows, and theeagles seemed to have regular watch-towers on the highrocks about, from which they swooped down on their it were not for the birds of prey about these hilly dis-tricts, some of the places would surely be overrun withharmful creatures of the ground. I am satisfied that this family of eagles ate six groundsquirrels a day during the period of
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