. The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs . gles and Buzzards. It is an ideal home for Eagles andtheir long residence here would proveit to be satisfactory as a home andhunting ground, for no eagle would longstay in a territory where the hunt-ing was not good. Rabbits, groundsquirrels, wood rats, quail, and otherthings are here in abundance, all ofwhich are important items in theirfood supply. That Eagles inhabit this section wasknown to me for several years before,in 1898, I was able to make a searchfor their nesting places. In that yeartwo nests were located, one in a cor
. The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs . gles and Buzzards. It is an ideal home for Eagles andtheir long residence here would proveit to be satisfactory as a home andhunting ground, for no eagle would longstay in a territory where the hunt-ing was not good. Rabbits, groundsquirrels, wood rats, quail, and otherthings are here in abundance, all ofwhich are important items in theirfood supply. That Eagles inhabit this section wasknown to me for several years before,in 1898, I was able to make a searchfor their nesting places. In that yeartwo nests were located, one in a cornerformed by natural cleavage in a hugemonolith-like rock half way to the topof the hill above the river and theother on a shelf of an immense ledgewhich formed the whole rocky frontof a hill a quarter of a mile first nest was very old and in badshape. It has since fallen out two was comparatively new,but was not in very good evidently had been done toit that year. In 1899 three trips were made to the THE OOLOGIST 35. Escondido Golden Eagle—Nests 2 and 3 36 THE OOLOGIST canyon with no results, the nests ap-parently being untouched. In 1900 the first nest was aboutgone, and a Barn Owl had his home ina cleft of the rock behind it. Theother seemed to have had a few sticksadded to it and I was greatly surprisedto find that a new nest had been start-ed on a projecting point of a big ledgea few feet above. The birds un-doubtedly changed their minds aboutlocating there, for though two moretrips were made to the canyon thatyear I was sorry to find that nothingmore had been added to the nest. On the first trip in 1901 I found theupper nest on the ledge, number 3,completed, apparently, except for thelining. Work had been done on thelower nest, number 2, also, to a slightdegree, but two more trips failed toshow any further developments. In 1902 the old number 1 nest hadgone out entirely, probably during aheavy rain. With the others condi-tions
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