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Bird -Lore 



A cruise of twelve or fifteen miles is 

 necessary from Klamath Falls down 

 Klamath River before one reaches the 

 main body of the lake, which is about 



home of the Great Blue Herons, whose 

 platform-nests were scattered over an 

 area of several acres; some were rafts just 

 above the surface of the water, but others 



TERNS, CORMORANTS AND PELICANS ASSOCIATING ON LOWER KLAMATH LAKE 



twelve miles long and five or six miles 

 wide. The main bird-colonies are toward 

 the northwestern end of the lake. War- 

 den Furber steered straight for the flying 

 specks of white that were hovering above 

 the green field of tules. The first colony 

 at which we stopjied was the ancestral 



had apparently been added to j^ear b}^ 

 year until they were several stories high. 



The Great Blue Herons are rather 

 irregular in their nesting-habits. Some of 

 the birds begin as early as March, for one 

 may find eggs before the winter's snow has 

 melted; yet some of the nests contained 



