Reach the Nest at Last 203 
furiously. I have no doubt that I was close to her young, but 
I had more serious work in hand and so [| left her alone. 
I now made my fourth and last descent and found myself 
immediately over the nest, but before I could go down to it the 
party handling the rope had to work their way down towards 
AN OSPREY’S NEST. 
me since the rope was too short. Finally I reached the nest, 
an enormous mass of big sticks measuring over 5 ft. across, and 
doubtless the result of many years’ work. In it were two eggs 
much incubated. By standing on a ledge close to the nest and 
pressing the camera between my body and the face of the cliff | 
