. Animal snapshots and how made . mnit is often observed circling high in the air andwhistling Kee-e-e, kee-e-e, for hours at a this harmless amusement, and for being so fre-quently observed, it is condemned by farmers andpoultrymen for the depredations of the less seen andmore sly hawks. Usually much of the blame shouldfall at the door of Coopers hawk, the sharp-shinnedhawk, or the American goshawk—these being thereal hen hawks. For the one act alone of destroying field micethe red-tailed hawk should be granted protection ofthe strictest kind, and agriculturists should be thefirst to
. Animal snapshots and how made . mnit is often observed circling high in the air andwhistling Kee-e-e, kee-e-e, for hours at a this harmless amusement, and for being so fre-quently observed, it is condemned by farmers andpoultrymen for the depredations of the less seen andmore sly hawks. Usually much of the blame shouldfall at the door of Coopers hawk, the sharp-shinnedhawk, or the American goshawk—these being thereal hen hawks. For the one act alone of destroying field micethe red-tailed hawk should be granted protection ofthe strictest kind, and agriculturists should be thefirst to insure it. There seems to be in the mindsof many an idea that to let a hawk or an owl escapeis doing a great injustice to mankind in general. It is said that the red-tailed hawks are quite tamein the West, and that a man can approach within ashort distance of one; but generally speaking, theyare very, shy in the East, this wildness being probablydue to their bein? so much persecuted for their sup-posed poultry stealing R H < R oa 0 H a < ao M M The Hen Hawk 321 The nest of this hawk is to be found in high trees inthe deep woods; it is a bulky affair, but quite shallow,being composed of sticks and roots often a foot ormore in length, with a good mixture of coarse grass,while the inside has a sparse lining of moss and afew feathers. One August day, as I was tramping through amarshy place in a piece of woods, I accidentallysurprised a red-tailed hawk which was probably hunt-ing for frogs or other food. Only a few days before,I had seen a hawk of this species within a shortdistance of where I surprised this one. On theday that I saw the second hawk, in a clearing on theedge of the swamp, I came upon a boy setting sometraps by a stump, and scattering about them thewaste parts of a fowl and also of a woodchuck. Iwas interested to know what was his object in doingthis, and he told me that skunks from the neighbor-ing woods were troubling his chickens. I inquired of h
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