. The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs . shrill and rather mournful cry. The nest was twelve feet up on ahorizontal limb; the tree was an easyone, so it took me about three secondsto reach the nest, which contained aset of two beauties, though I after-wards found them to be badly incubat-ed. While I was examining the nest andeggs, two more Kites joined the own-er. It was a fine sight, the three grace-ful birds flying in a circle crossingeach others path, with motionlesswings, using their long tails to steerto a higher or lower plane, or gainingheadway with swift regular
. The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs . shrill and rather mournful cry. The nest was twelve feet up on ahorizontal limb; the tree was an easyone, so it took me about three secondsto reach the nest, which contained aset of two beauties, though I after-wards found them to be badly incubat-ed. While I was examining the nest andeggs, two more Kites joined the own-er. It was a fine sight, the three grace-ful birds flying in a circle crossingeach others path, with motionlesswings, using their long tails to steerto a higher or lower plane, or gainingheadway with swift regular wingbeats. The presence of a third Kite gaverise to suspicions of another nestsomewhere near, so after carefullypacking the set of two, I started insearch, and finally located it, abouttwo hundred yards farther down onthe other side of the creek, in an elmtree seventeen feet up. It contained a single egg, slightlysmaller than the set of two, and neststained. It was left, in hopes of theKite laying another. Another nest was found about a THE OOLOQIST a2?(^7 49. No. 97 C. F. Stone climbing for Redtails eggs —Photo by Verdi Biirtcli quarter of a mile below. It was in anelm, about sixteen feet up; also withbut one egg. It too, was left. But the 26th, the nests eontaineua single egg. On the 27th another setof one was taken from a large cottonwood twenty-five feet up. All the nests were built in the forksof a branch, of coarse twigs or smallsticks, and lined with green cotton- wood and China-berry leaves, the bot-tom layers being quite dry, while thetop layers next to the eggs werefresh; part of them not even wilted. All the sets were badly incubated,having large tough embryoes, whichtook lots of time and patience to re-move, but I started home on the 28th,feeling well repaid for time and trou-ble. Guy Love. 50 THE OOLOGIST A Nest of the Red Tailed Hawk. April 3, 1910 my friend Stone andI got the -genuine Spring fever. Whenit seems that one must get into thewoods wher
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