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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



AN OSPREY RETURNING TO ITS LOW MARSH NEST TO CARE FOR HER TWO NEWLY 



HATCHED YOUNGSTERS. 

 Gardiner's Island, New York, 1910. 



witness an osprey plunge for a fish. 

 and most any one can also shoot 

 at the bird, but it needs such in- 

 genuity and patience as Air. Cleaves 

 brought to the matter to get its pic- 

 ture. He has also photographed a 

 number of the shore birds that frequent 

 the ponds and adjacent seashore near 

 his home at Princes Bay. Many of 

 these have amusing ways and trot 

 along the shore line following some 

 definite turn about a piece of driftwood 

 or boulder, and it has been necessary 



to carefully study each particular idi- 

 osyncrasy in order to secure the covet- 

 ed pictures. 



Mr. Cleaves is a good observer, as 

 shown in his numerous articles pub- 

 lished in "Country Life in America," 

 the "Proceedings of the Staten Island 

 Association of Arts and Sciences" and 

 elsewhere, and as he has but started on 

 the way, there seems to be a bright 

 and useful future for his camera, his 

 pen and his lectures in behalf of his 

 feathered favorites. 



A PICTURESQUE "INLAND ROCK NEST" OF A PAIR OF OSPREYS. 



Gardiner's Island, New York, 1910. 



Copyrighted in England by Witherby & Company, 1911. 



Copyrighted in U. S. A. by Howard H. Cleaves, 1911. 



Copyrighted in V. S. A. by Doubleday, Page & Company, 1912. 



