The Oologist. 



Vol. XXI. No. 6. 



Albion, N. Y., June, 1904. 



Whole No. 203 



The Oologist. 



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A Season with the Bald Eagles. 



I have been disappointed so many 

 times in visiting these nests that the 

 past season I concluded to be in time 



and made my plans to start out with 

 my launch up and down the coast 

 about November loth which I dare say 

 to you northern people seems very 

 strange. The Bald Eagle begins busi- 

 ness down in this Section very much 

 earlier than on the west coast of 

 Ii'lorida. I have found them nesting 

 on the west coast 'with young birds 

 only about two to five days old as late 

 as March 4th, here the latest I have 

 found eggs was January 7th. Well 

 after making my plans as before stat- 

 ed I was notified while sojourning at 

 Asheville, N. C. that a hurricane had 

 swept over Palm Beach and torn up 

 things generally Sept. 15th so I hurri- 

 ed here and the enormous amount of 

 work getting my place in order made 

 it impossible to get out before Dec. 

 10th when the first nest was visited 

 and as the launch pushed her nose 

 upon the shore within one hundred 

 feet of the nest and no Eagle in sight 

 I began to lose heart fearing that the 

 thing that had happened there the 

 jear previous and had spoiled my fun, 

 had been repeated. "Old Uncle Abe" 

 had been shot. All these thoughts ran 

 through my mind in a verj^ short 

 space of time for the very moment we 

 arose to get out and see what was do- 

 ing to my surprise again off flew my 

 friend, I then said to my partner, 

 (who for short I'll call Minnie) "I'll 

 bet we are to early for eggs, because 

 the birds don't make the fuss they 

 usually do when eggs or young are in 

 sight." Well as I never miss a chance 

 to climb an Eagles nest (notwith- 

 standing I'm starting on my second 

 half century ride) I strapped on my 

 climbers and climbed to the beautiful 

 nest but 35 ft. high in a most symet- 



