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a day to study the instrument, and then screwed it about 
five feet above the nest, pointed down at it. When I came 
again I rejoiced to find she had not deserted. So I replaced 
the box with the real camera, focused and made ready, and 
covered it with the same cloth. 
This done, I attached to the shutter my long, strong thread, 
dropping the spool end to the ground and laying out the line 
of communication to a bower which I had previously built 
under some thick hemlocks, as far away as I could see the 
nest through the trees, where I hid myself, lying flat on 
the ground and peering through a loop-hole. For half an 
hour all was silent. Then the hawk began her clatter near 
by, flitting nervously from tree to tree. After a while she 
cooper’s hawk incubating 
THE WILDEST HAWK CAN BE PHOTOGRAPHED UPON THE NEST 
