. Bird lore . First Efforts at Bird Pliotography 91 Two Chipping Sparrows nests. One was in an unusual place, on the Umbof a Norway spruce that projected over the porch roof. I got some very goodphotographs of this family, which consisted of the parents and three young were hatched on June 6, and they left the nest on June 15. One Kingbirds nest, containing three eggs, was on a limb of a willow treethat extended over a pond about ten feet. The nest itself was three feetabove the water. One Flickers nest. I could not determine the number of young in thisnest, but I knew they were ther
. Bird lore . First Efforts at Bird Pliotography 91 Two Chipping Sparrows nests. One was in an unusual place, on the Umbof a Norway spruce that projected over the porch roof. I got some very goodphotographs of this family, which consisted of the parents and three young were hatched on June 6, and they left the nest on June 15. One Kingbirds nest, containing three eggs, was on a limb of a willow treethat extended over a pond about ten feet. The nest itself was three feetabove the water. One Flickers nest. I could not determine the number of young in thisnest, but I knew they were there by their hissing at a shadow over the entranceto the nest. This year the Bobolink appeared in the neighborhood of Fredon for thefirst time in at least four years, if not more. Of all the songs of birds I have heard, I like the Bobolinks the LONG-EARED OWL ON ITS EGGS IN AN OLD CROWS NESTPhotographed by H. and E. Pittman, Wauchope, Saskatchewan. The Interesting Barn Owl By JOSEPH W. LIPPINCOTT, Bethayres, a photograph by the author THE Barn Owl commands my respect. He is the greatest mouse-eatingmachine I have yet encountered, and as such surely deserves everyconsideration in these days of crop destruction by rodents. Like mostOwls, he does not allow his presence long to remain unsuspected. A loud, harshscream after nightfall, repeated at the right intervals to keep one awake andechoed by the young Owls when they appear, is his greeting. And well may thelittle mice shiver in their poor retreats! I heard the good old Barn Owls again and again during early spring nights,and later found that two, or perhaps more, young ones were generally in orabout a hemlock grove not far from the creek and the swampy meadows thatmake such ideal feeding-grounds and are, in fact, the nucleus of the rodenthosts that spread over the ne
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