. The condor. Birds; Birds; Birds. Mar., 1907 AMONG THE PELICANS 37 fifty feet, we found one hundred and ninety nests, containing about three hun- dred birds and half as many eggs not yet hatched. That night we camped opposite the cormorant rookery and just below what is known as the crater. The next day we rowed on south past Rattlesnake Island. In the afternoon we made camp across from another large rookery where the cor- morants and pelicans were nesting. This island held two hundred and fifty cor- morant nests—about two hundred and seventy-five young birds and two hundred eggs. The cormora
. The condor. Birds; Birds; Birds. Mar., 1907 AMONG THE PELICANS 37 fifty feet, we found one hundred and ninety nests, containing about three hun- dred birds and half as many eggs not yet hatched. That night we camped opposite the cormorant rookery and just below what is known as the crater. The next day we rowed on south past Rattlesnake Island. In the afternoon we made camp across from another large rookery where the cor- morants and pelicans were nesting. This island held two hundred and fifty cor- morant nests—about two hundred and seventy-five young birds and two hundred eggs. The cormorant nests were built up of sticks, but the pelicans simply made a depression in the sand for their eggs. This was the only colony of pelicans we found after cruising for two weeks on Tule I^ake, altho we had seen a flock of several hundred birds that fished about the Take and roosted together at night on one of the sandbars. They were very likely last year's birds and being immature, had not yet begun to nest. When we crossed over to Tower Klamath Take, we found it very different from the south end of Tule Take, where we had fairly good places to camp. Ex- tending for several miles out from the main shore was a seemingly endless area of. IIERU OF YOUNG PELICAXs; XOTE THE TULE-THATCH ED BEIND AT RIGHT, FROM WHICH THE CAMERA WAS OPERATED IN OBTAINING MORE INTIMATE EIFE-STUDIES floating tule islands, between which flowed a network of channels. These islands furnished good homes for the great flocks of pelicans that return each spring to live about these lakes and rivers that teem with fish. The tules had grown up for generations. The heavy growth of each year shoots up thru the dead stalks of the preceding season till it forms a fairly good floating foundation. On the top of this the pelicans had perched and trodden down the tules till they formed a surface often strong enough to support a man. But it w^as like walking on the crust of the snow, for you never knew just when it wou
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