. My life among the wild birds in Spain . NEST OF EAGLE OWL IN CAVERN ON FACE OF CLIFF. Owing to the darkness of the cavern a considerable time exposurewas necessary and it was simply impossible to get both to remainquiet. At times one of them would elect to resolve itself intoa ball of apparently inanimate down for thirty seconds or so, butnot so the other which would proceed to expand its plumage 320 The Eagle Owl until almost double its ordinary size and then slowly subside toits normal dimensions to the accompaniments of vollies of loudsnaps of its beak. No sooner had one gone through this
. My life among the wild birds in Spain . NEST OF EAGLE OWL IN CAVERN ON FACE OF CLIFF. Owing to the darkness of the cavern a considerable time exposurewas necessary and it was simply impossible to get both to remainquiet. At times one of them would elect to resolve itself intoa ball of apparently inanimate down for thirty seconds or so, butnot so the other which would proceed to expand its plumage 320 The Eagle Owl until almost double its ordinary size and then slowly subside toits normal dimensions to the accompaniments of vollies of loudsnaps of its beak. No sooner had one gone through thismanoeuvre and come to rest than the other would commence asimilar performance. I took these young savages and reared them the very first they showed fight. When they were not. YOUNG EAGLE OWLS IN COURTYARD more than a few weeks old I endeavoured to photograph themin the courtyard of the house where I was staying and the wrathand contempt they evinced at my efforts on this occasion are insome degree reproduced by the picture then taken. The seancewas abruptly closed by one of them, not the supercilious one,suddenly making a vicious run at the camera. As already mentioned, two eggs is the usual complement laid My considerate Retriever S2I but I have more than once heard of three young owls in a nestand have myself found a nest with three eggs. This was in 1905and in the same nest as the owlets of two years before. 1 wentdown the cliff this time on a light rope and, despite the gloomof the cavern, got the photograph oi the three eggs at iS Having done the camera work I called out to Admiral Farquharwho had remained with the party who were handling the rope at
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