. Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals, with notes on physiography and life zones . nt, easily watched from the high embankment above thecreek, was on a dead limby spruce about 40 feet from the groundand was perhaps 4 feet wide by 2| feet high. When I first went to watch the nest from the point on the embank-ment that I named Fish Plawk Point, one of the parents—let ussay the mother—stood on the tip of a tall spruce commanding bothnest and surrounding landscape. On Guard, her picture might havebeen labeled. In the nest white flashes came from the moving young,away in the distant
. Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals, with notes on physiography and life zones . nt, easily watched from the high embankment above thecreek, was on a dead limby spruce about 40 feet from the groundand was perhaps 4 feet wide by 2| feet high. When I first went to watch the nest from the point on the embank-ment that I named Fish Plawk Point, one of the parents—let ussay the mother—stood on the tip of a tall spruce commanding bothnest and surrounding landscape. On Guard, her picture might havebeen labeled. In the nest white flashes came from the moving young,away in the distant backgTound were seen the forested slope of themoraine, and above, the bare, rocky cliff, gilded by the afternoonlight. Down the river the other parent was fishing, his loud peepingyelp-elp-elp-elp being heard as he flew, now over the trees, now BIRDS. 151 over tli»e lakes, now against the mountain-side, finally disappearingin twinkling white flashes in the distance. As we watched, thinkinghe had gone, back he came calling, with a fish in his claws, heldhead-on to cut the air as lie C opyrielit by Haynes, St. Paul. Fig. 55.—Nest of osprey. Early the next morning I took my stand at Fish Hawk Point,where I spent a large part of the day. A parent and both young werestanding on the nest on my arrival, one leaning over eating. Pres-ently the parent raised its head and looked over in my direction;then, lifting its Avings and spreading them Avide, flew straight across 152 WILD ANIMALS OF GLACIER NATIONAL PARK, the creek bottom, Iull of Avillow thickets and beaver dams, till itcame crying over my head. After careful inspection it circled backand lit on the tip of a spruce spire, the other parent watching froman adjoining tree and crying loudly yelp-elp-elp-el]), yelp-elp-elp-elp^while the two at the nest at intervals raised their weak young on high spires, the parents made handsome figures, with thesun full on their white breasts and proudly raised white hea
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