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gorge the parent birds could be watched coming and going. In 191 2, however, 

 they chose a less impregnable position. A few hundred yards below the falls 

 the joint planes had loosened, and an enormous block had tumbled from the 

 cliff to the talus below. Sixty feet down the niche thus formed, on a hanging 

 ledge that seemed ever ready to follow its predecessor, the Duck Hawks located. 



ARROW INDICATES SITE OF DUCK HAWK'S NEST; CROSS, THE SPOT 

 FROM WHICH PHOTOGRAPHS OF IT WERE TAKEN 



One may clamber down from one to another of the cedars that cover the 

 steep 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 its 

 tenacious roots, and from it an even better view can be secured. It is from 

 this that the accompanying photographs were taken. Letting oneself down a 

 rope 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- 



