1 86 The Ottawa Naturalist. | February 



there in safety until the tree was blown down in 1895. They have 

 now left the locality, a locality they had been accustomed to nest 

 in for numbers of years no doubt, — and have gone elsewhere to 

 breed. At Wolfe Island this bird nested until recent years, occu- 

 pying a large elm near Long Point, at the head of the island. 

 When this tree blew down the eagles built a nest at the head of 

 Simcoe Island. There they occupied a high elm, which was 

 climbed by a man of the name of Shelbourne in 1900 ; a feat that 

 very few persons would care to undertake ; and the birds again 

 changed their abode. At present there are but one or two nesting 

 places remaining at the eastern end of Lake Ontario. 



Going inland, we hear of a tew pairs of bald eagles along the 

 Rideau, and at the lakes in its vicinity ; and in the latter part of 

 summer young birds as well as a pair of old ones might be seen 

 at Sharbot Lake almost daily. But what destruction goes on ; 

 in the springof 1903 a pair of these eagles selected a compara- 

 tively small hemlock for a nesting station near this lake. They 

 successfully hatched their eggs, and raised their young until they 

 could just fly. Then the nest was found by men engaged in peel- 

 ing hemlock bark; the alarm was sounded, word sent abroad, and 

 the tree was felled, the two young ones killed and lett lying on 

 the ground, and one of the old ones shot ! Such is the fate that 

 too often overtakes these birds, nowadays. 



The golden eagle nests very rarely in Ontario. A nest seen 

 by the writer was built in high rocks at Schooner Lake in North 

 Frontenac, and was considered for a long time inaccessible until 

 some river drivers let one of their number down from the top of 

 the cliff by a heavy rope, and he managed to swing himself on to 

 the ledge where the nest was located and secure the eggs. This 

 was towards the end of April, a few years ago, and since, the 

 nest has been deserted. In 1903, the writer visited the place, 

 and suggested the means by which a man named Herbert reached 

 the nest. 



As with the eagles, so it is with the ospreys. They are 

 rapidly being exterminated. A few years ago a nest located on 

 a pine or hemlock stub was no uncommon sight in the back 

 country; now it is a very rare sight. This bird is more partial to 

 the neighborhood of small inland lakes than to the larger waters 



