. Birds and nature . stood nearby. With great care we chopped andsawed until it began to totter. With wedgeswe forced it over. There was a momentof intense anxiety as it started on its down-ward course; and then we saw its crownlodge in the crotch of the first large limbof the nest tree, full forty feet above theground. The felled tree now formed an aerialbridge, leading a third of the distance tothe nest. Up this wt clambered. The the climb was hard and dangerous. Wedug our climbing irons into the bark,lassoed the limbs above, and slowly madeour way upward until, at last, we peeredint
. Birds and nature . stood nearby. With great care we chopped andsawed until it began to totter. With wedgeswe forced it over. There was a momentof intense anxiety as it started on its down-ward course; and then we saw its crownlodge in the crotch of the first large limbof the nest tree, full forty feet above theground. The felled tree now formed an aerialbridge, leading a third of the distance tothe nest. Up this wt clambered. The the climb was hard and dangerous. Wedug our climbing irons into the bark,lassoed the limbs above, and slowly madeour way upward until, at last, we peeredinto the nest and discovered two large eggs,dull white and mottled with chocolate. Itwas an exciting moment. Surely, a grander aerie was never chosenby any hawk! From where the mother brooded over her eggs she could lookstraight up the Columbia river to whereMt. Hood lifted its rugged snow-clad the westward stretched a long line ofponds and lakes—the hawks favorite hunt-ing-ground. To the north the broad Col-. On the Lookout umbia spread its expanse of waters, and in the distance loomed the dome-like peak of St. Helens, gleaming with perpetual snow. On the 19th day of April, when the nest
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