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course, impossible, and I quietly withdrew to devise a future 

 plan of attack. 



The situation of the nest was quite favorable. Though the 

 massive tree, with its rough, scaly bark, was almost unclimb- 



VIEW OF THE GREAT HORNED OWL ON HER NEST 



able, from the ledge above one was practically halfway up, 

 and thence grew more slender trees, on some of which one 

 could climb to within fifteen feet of the nest. There one 

 might screw up a camera, and "pull the string" on the owl 

 from a distance. She might also be photographed from the 

 ground as she stood up in the nest, or looked over the edge. 



