. Wild wings; adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of North America on sea and land . denEagle was a stranger to me. One day I was shown a splen-did specimen alive that had been caught in a trap, and notlong after that, early in June, as we were jogging along overthe wild prairie, uninhabited by man, away up near the Mani-toba boundary, I saw an enormous bird sitting on the drove toward it, and got near enough for a good viewwith our glasses before it flew. Spreading its great wings, itmajestically flapped into the air. After a little upward flight,it extended it
. Wild wings; adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of North America on sea and land . denEagle was a stranger to me. One day I was shown a splen-did specimen alive that had been caught in a trap, and notlong after that, early in June, as we were jogging along overthe wild prairie, uninhabited by man, away up near the Mani-toba boundary, I saw an enormous bird sitting on the drove toward it, and got near enough for a good viewwith our glasses before it flew. Spreading its great wings, itmajestically flapped into the air. After a little upward flight,it extended its wings to their full length, and without anothereftort, simply soared in circles, up and up, until it actually 290 WILD WINGS could be no longer observed in the zenith by the naked was the Golden Eagle, noble of form and majestic in whole scene in its impressiveness suggested to me theupward course of the human soul from things low and sordidto wisdom, strength, and purity, to eternal heights as yetbeyond (jur ken. ^ ^K B^^K kk ^Hn fe ■ K f| i ,7T ^1 1 H 1 r YOUNG HAWK. for some years a pair of barred owls nested in the cavity of an oak CHAPTER XVI OWL SECRETS The night-owl, hushed and tranced, hatesIts cry, and in the darkness waits. Stephen Henry Thayer. CLOSELY related to the sport of hawking is that of owling. Indeed the latter is properly a departmentof the former, and in some measure is to be carriedon along with it. It is really much the more difficult of thetwo, for the owl has the faculty and habit of so closely safe-guarding its secrets — its domestic afl[airs in particular —that, to the enthusiastic bird-lover or camera-hunter who 292 WILD WINGS keenly craves a thorough knowledge of the zvhole avifauna,the success of the owl in eluding him is simply it is so hard to find an owls nest that one would needhawking — if for no other reason! — to fill in betweentimes and provide sufficient stimulus to keep ones enth
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