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Canada Goose found Nesting on 

 the Cliffs, in Routt Co., Colo 



Away out here in extreme North- 

 western Colorado some certain indi- 

 viduals of the wild goose family have 

 developed ?. new and charming trait 

 by seeming to prefer some old desertetl 

 hawks' nest, in a tree or on a cliff near 

 the river, in which to deposit their 

 eggs and bring forth the rising genera- 

 tion, saj's Amo- S Bennett in Sports 

 Afield. 



I had frequently been 'old by people 

 examining my collection of eggs about 

 a pair of geese that were in the lial)it 

 of nesting yearly in a tall cottonwMod 

 tree near Cross Mountain; but I never 

 reallv gave the story much c edence 

 until quite recontl',-. vvhrn. out hunting 

 with a camera one day, I came '"i a 



limestone cliff over-h uv. 



the 



In the layers of this cliff was a strata 

 of rock, softer than that above or be- 

 low. The soft rock had been formed 

 along the entire length of the cliff. 

 An object en the ledge attracted my 

 attention and seemed to demand an 

 investigation. Not being able to get 

 a clear view of the thing, I thought it 

 might possibly be a lion or a bob-cat, 

 and knowing it would have to escape 

 along the shelf, I originated a plan for 

 catching his photograph as he came 

 a'ong. Returning to a neighbor's 



house, I secured the assissance of his 

 two sons and their gun. Iveturning to 

 the cliff, I made a circuit over the 

 mountain to the farther end of the 

 ledge. Carefully focusing my camera 

 on the spot where ihe supposed lion 

 would coine in making his escape, I 

 signalled tin- boys who opened hre at 



