. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. ADVENTURES WITH BIRDS f)F PREY 129. A RAVEN GLEE CLUB SINGS LUSTILY AT MEALTIME The three hungry >'OunK birds, their mouths agape, wait impatiently while their wary mother and her mate (right) make sure that the camera is harmless. Carrion and other food, swallowed and partly digested by the old bird, is regurgitated to the young, which are fed in this way until they are able to fly. The nest is made of large sticks and lined with horsehair, taken probably from dead animals on which the ravens have fed (page 120). climbed ov
. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. ADVENTURES WITH BIRDS f)F PREY 129. A RAVEN GLEE CLUB SINGS LUSTILY AT MEALTIME The three hungry >'OunK birds, their mouths agape, wait impatiently while their wary mother and her mate (right) make sure that the camera is harmless. Carrion and other food, swallowed and partly digested by the old bird, is regurgitated to the young, which are fed in this way until they are able to fly. The nest is made of large sticks and lined with horsehair, taken probably from dead animals on which the ravens have fed (page 120). climbed over the cliff, while Steve, Julian, and I held tightly to the rope, with our feet braced against a large bowlder. In our haste and ignorance, we forgot to re- move the loose rocks near the rope. We saw the danger only after a large rock had hit Frank a glancing blow on the leg. In attempting to remove the rocks, we loosened several others which fell the fifty feet to the ledge before we could utter a warning and then crashed on down the eight-hundred-foot slope. We could not see Frank from the top and we feared to call to see whether he had been struck. We were certainly relieved when we heard a string of cuss words come from the ledge. We got our pictures and hawks without further mishap and started to pull Frank up, but we loosened so many rocks that we decided to lower him instead. The r(jpe was fifteen feet short, so we threw Frank a piece of clothesline to tie to the lower end. The clothesline broke when Frank was ten feet from the bottom. This incident taught us that a cliff is no place to practice trial and error methods. Whether photographing from a tree or a cliff, our motto now is; "Try to be careful. It is not likely that you can be careless more than ; Between trips to the duck hawk and raven eyries we spent our time photograph-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability -
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