. American ornithology for the home and school . NEST AND EGGS. The Red-tail places its bulky nest w^ell up in the high trees of dense 266 A ME RICA N ORNITHOL RED-TAILED HAWK. woods. It is a rather shallow platform of sticks and lined with twigs,grasses, moss or anything that it may happen to pick up. The eggsare laid according to the locality from the latter part of March until theend of May. The eggs are a bluish-white in color and vary greatly inmarkings. Some are unmarked, and others faintly, while still otherswill be heavily dashed, blotched and spotted with varying shades ofbrown.
. American ornithology for the home and school . NEST AND EGGS. The Red-tail places its bulky nest w^ell up in the high trees of dense 266 A ME RICA N ORNITHOL RED-TAILED HAWK. woods. It is a rather shallow platform of sticks and lined with twigs,grasses, moss or anything that it may happen to pick up. The eggsare laid according to the locality from the latter part of March until theend of May. The eggs are a bluish-white in color and vary greatly inmarkings. Some are unmarked, and others faintly, while still otherswill be heavily dashed, blotched and spotted with varying shades ofbrown. They lay from two to four eggs, the former number beingmuch more common than the latter. bold, powerful and handsome hawk, this species is capable of AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY 267
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