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Identifier: birdlore151913nati (find matches)
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 Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ARROW INDICATES SITE OF DUCK HAWKS NEST; CROSS, THE SPOTFROM WHICH PHOTOGRAPHS OF IT WERE TAKEN One may clamber down from one to another of the cedars that cover thesteep slope ending in the precipice, and make his way to the edge of the cliff,whence he may look down and across the intervening niche to the nesting ledge. Ten feet down the face of the cliff an old gnarled cedar still clings with itstenacious roots, and from it an even better view can be secured. It is fromthis that the accompanying photographs were taken. Letting oneself down arope to this swaying tree, one could find partial shelter in its foliage and observe,unnoticed, the home life of these fiercest of Hawks. True, it was a little nerve-
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THE HOME OF THE DUCK HAWK (3) 4 Bird - Lore straining to watch ones shutter-release drop for one, two, three, four,seconds beneath one and strike the cold, hard rocks of the talus, only to bounda hundred feet farther down to the boulders of the stream bed. One occasionallycame to his senses with a start, after reaching far out with the camera andtemporarily forgetting his position astraddle the branch, at the exciting momentwhen the parent sailed in with food. But one forgets everything in the excite-ment of that scream which announces the return of the provider. One nolonger wonders why every bird in the covert crouches and freezes immovablewhen he hears it.

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