. Bird lore . YOUNG RED-TAILS AT SIX, SEVENTEEN ANDTWENTY-ONE DAYS OLD The Home-life of the Red-tailed Hawk i57 which preceded him up the hillside. He neither saw me on the ground norstopped to reconnoiter, but flew directly on the edge of the nest and beganfeeding and picking over the young. Unfortunately, the foliage was verythick, or a photograph might have been made from my position on theground. As my visits became more frequent, the Hawks seemed to recognizethe wearer of a brown duck coat as the disturber of their nest. From this. RED-TAILS, TWENTY-NINE DAYS OLD time on I was greeted fro
. Bird lore . YOUNG RED-TAILS AT SIX, SEVENTEEN ANDTWENTY-ONE DAYS OLD The Home-life of the Red-tailed Hawk i57 which preceded him up the hillside. He neither saw me on the ground norstopped to reconnoiter, but flew directly on the edge of the nest and beganfeeding and picking over the young. Unfortunately, the foliage was verythick, or a photograph might have been made from my position on theground. As my visits became more frequent, the Hawks seemed to recognizethe wearer of a brown duck coat as the disturber of their nest. From this. RED-TAILS, TWENTY-NINE DAYS OLD time on I was greeted from afar by a defiant scream of anger, anxiety andparental instinct, while the men who worked in the fields near by were notnoticed in the least. On my last visit to the Hawks, the nest contained the half-eaten remainsof a gopher, and a few feathers which once belonged to a Blue Jay. A Jayhad recently been guilty of destroying the home of a House Wren near by ina fence-post, and I earnestly hope it was this bird that met his Waterloo inthe sharp talons of the Hawk. Nesting of the Arctic Three-toed Woodpeckerin the Adirondacks Hv LAURENCE ACHILLES A I i luce thousand feel or more above the sea, m the denser spruce :indbalsam forests of the Adirondacks, the Arc lie Three-toed Wood pecker is fairly common. Two broods of young were found flyinjj;about on June 2s> though the nesf of which I speak was nol deserted untilJ nly s or 6. The young birds betrayed their whereabouts by incessantly crying for lood. The nest was discovered on
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