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English: Red-tail taking its own picture by sitting on a thread attached to a camera in a tree 10 feet away. The thread runs through the screw-eye beside the bird's head.

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Title: Bird lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Committee of the Audubon Societies of America National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals National Audubon Society
Subjects: Birds Birds Ornithology
Publisher: New York City : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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rizon,while to the northward, the Upper Iowa river flows in its meandering coursethrough bottom-lands covered with groves of giant trees and cultivatedfields. On April 5, 1901, I paid a visit to the nest in the birch tree and foundit all ready for the eggs. The birds were at first nowhere in sight, but assoon as I had climbed to the nest they both came sailing rapidly toward mefrom over the hill to the east. The male, after circling about overhead fora few minutes, perched on the dead limb of an oak tree three hundred yardsaway. Here, on what I learned later was his favorite lookout point, he sat The Home-life of the Red-tailed Hawk i53 and watched me, as quiet as the tree itself. His mate was more concerned.She frequently swooped down at me, somewhat as a Nighthawk does whencapturing insects, and uttered cries which sounded very much like theescape of air when a railroad train slows down. She came so close to meseveral times in her downward swoops that I involuntarily ducked my head.
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RED-TAIL TAKING ITS OWN PICTURE BY SITTING ON A THREAD ATTACHED TOA CAMERA IN A TREE TEN FEET AWAY The thread was passed through the screw-eye opposite the birds head 154 Bird-Lore She never came near enough to do any damage, but always changed hercourse when a few feet away and veered off a little to the right. Heranxiety was not even allayed when I climbed down out of the tree, but shemust needs follow me a mile and a half on my way home. As I approached the hill on April II, I could see a Hawk on the deadoak limb in exactly the same place where he was when I went away six daysbefore. He screamed once, perhaps as a warning, spread his wings andsailed out over me, turning his head as he flew to get a better view of me. Icould see the tail of the female extending from over the side of the nest,but she valiantly stuck to her post until I had climbed part way up the hill.Then, with a few great flaps of her wings, she hastened out of gunshot,and, circling overhead as on my former visit,

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