. The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs . enerally Sept. 15th so I hurri-ed here and the enormous amount ofwork getting my place in order madeit impossible to get out before when the first nest was visitedand as the launch pushed her noseupon the shore within one hundredfeet of the nest and no Eagle in sightI began to lose heart fearing that thething that had happened there theyear previous and had spoiled my fun,had been repeated. Old Uncle Abehad been shot. All these thoughts ranthrough •my mind in a very shortspace of time for the very moment wearose to get ou
. The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs . enerally Sept. 15th so I hurri-ed here and the enormous amount ofwork getting my place in order madeit impossible to get out before when the first nest was visitedand as the launch pushed her noseupon the shore within one hundredfeet of the nest and no Eagle in sightI began to lose heart fearing that thething that had happened there theyear previous and had spoiled my fun,had been repeated. Old Uncle Abehad been shot. All these thoughts ranthrough •my mind in a very shortspace of time for the very moment wearose to get out and see what was do-ing to my surprise again off flew myfriend, I then said to my partner,(who for short Ill call Minnie) Illbet we are to early for eggs, becausethe birds dont make the fuss theyusually do when eggs or young are insight. Well as I never miss a chanceto climb an Eagles nest (notwith-standing Im starting on my secondhalf century ride) I strapped on myclimbers and climbed to the beautifulnest but 35 ft. high in a most svmet- 86 THE MR. RYMAN CLIMBING TO NEST OF BALD EAGLE IN FLA. THE OOLOGIST. 87 rical large pine tree and the nest wasso very large some six feet in depththat I made three fierce attempts toget my hands over the rim far enoughto ascertain what was to reward mefor such laborious effort getting up toa nest so near the ground. The BaldEagle as a rule builds in very talltrees and quite near the top as the accom-paning picture will show. The nestwas so large, I should say about 7 feetacross, that I could not get aroundand on top of it as I do in most cases,but I was there to find out what wasin that nest, I had not come twentymiles for my health alone, and whileMinnie was calling be careful now,as my body was at right angles withthe trunk of the tree, I grew desperate,almost made up my mind to burrowthrough as I have done in some cases,but I was finally astonished andrewarded by putting two beautiful eggsin my pocket and if I had only had
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