. The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs . tched eggwhich I left as I was compelled toleave the next day. The nest wasplaced in the triple forks of a largeSugar Maple half way up a hill, bord-ering a swamp and was built of largesticks and lined as usual, with greenHemlock sprays. On April 8, 1912, I happened to bein the locality again and about fiftyyards off from the above nest I founda pair building far up in a big Beechtree. As I stood watching them I sawthe male place several sticks in thenest and then fly to the female whowas perched nearby and stand on herfor several
. The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs . tched eggwhich I left as I was compelled toleave the next day. The nest wasplaced in the triple forks of a largeSugar Maple half way up a hill, bord-ering a swamp and was built of largesticks and lined as usual, with greenHemlock sprays. On April 8, 1912, I happened to bein the locality again and about fiftyyards off from the above nest I founda pair building far up in a big Beechtree. As I stood watching them I sawthe male place several sticks in thenest and then fly to the female whowas perched nearby and stand on herfor several minutes, all the while ut-tering his caressing calls. April 20th found me back at LaAnna again, prepared to make a syste-matic search for the nests of severalpairs I had seen on my previous I neared the nest I had located, thetail of the sitting bird could be seenover the edge and I felt that throbthrough my veins that only comeswith success. Strapping on my climb-ers I labored up the heavy trunk asthe Hawk flew with a scream of defi- 32 THE OOLOGIST. THE OOLOGIST W 33 ance from her home above. It wasfully forty feet to the first limb andthen a good thirty-five feet more tothe nest, but my reward was there,three large eggs—splotched and dot-ted with reddish brown. The nestwas in a triple crotch and made en-tirely of sticks, small branches andleaves, with a lining of green Hem-lock sprays, while the tell tale downyfeathers clung to the sticks (just asI had read in the accounts of J. ClaireWood, J. M. Ward, C. F. Stone.) On down the valley I went until Icame to another large woods on theside of a steep hill. Here I soon sawan immense nest half way up the hill-side and a tap on the tree sent a largeHawk screaming out over the was an easy climb to the nest—onlyforty feet up in the triple crotch of atall straight Sugar Maple and as Ineared the nest I could see the freshscars of a charge of shot which hadbeen fired into it. This was muchlarger than the first n
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