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WILD WINGS 



YOUNG SHARP-SHINNED HAWK, RAISED FROM THE NEST 



woods, and goes roaring down a series of cascades. On the 

 seventh of May, as I was following up the brook along the 

 cascades, a Broad-winged Hawk flew out from some tall hem- 

 lock and deciduous trees bordering the brook on the other 

 side, and circled three times over me, in a rather threatening 

 manner, I thought, returning then to alight in a tall oak, 

 where it sat quietly. 



I was convinced that the bird was nesting, so I crossed the 

 brook by a bridge farther up, and reached the spot. The 

 hawk was not to be seen, but I saw an old squirrels' nest, 

 forty feet up a chestnut-tree, that had some fresh sticks laid 

 across the top, which made me confident that the hawk was 



