. American ornithology, for home and school . etweenthis city and the beach contained five snow-white eggs, and was the home ofa Short-eared Owl, quite a rare bird in California. When I found the nestthe old birds were at home—the Temple on the nest, the male sitting in thetall grass, close by. Unfortunately, someone found the nest shortly afterI did and robbed it of its treasures, for when I went back to photographthe young birds, three weeks later, there was not even a scrap of a brokenshell in the nest and the old birds were gone. This nest was flat on the ground, the eggs merely laid on a
. American ornithology, for home and school . etweenthis city and the beach contained five snow-white eggs, and was the home ofa Short-eared Owl, quite a rare bird in California. When I found the nestthe old birds were at home—the Temple on the nest, the male sitting in thetall grass, close by. Unfortunately, someone found the nest shortly afterI did and robbed it of its treasures, for when I went back to photographthe young birds, three weeks later, there was not even a scrap of a brokenshell in the nest and the old birds were gone. This nest was flat on the ground, the eggs merely laid on a mat of marshgrass, with a little rim of broken grass stems around it. I think it was anabandoned nest of some one of the rail tribe, though it may have been madeby the owls themselves. These owls do an immense amount of good for thefarmers of this section and I regret very much the destruction of this onefamily. The other photo I present is of a cave-cut cliff, wherein not one pair, buta colonv of Pacific Horned Owls have nested for Photo by A. H. BradfordNesting Place of Pacific Horned Owl. 20 AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY.
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