FIRST WEEK] 



July 



by the keepers to their charges. This duck and heron are 

 the only ones of their orders thus to honour the Park by 

 nesting, although a number of other species are not uncom- 

 mon during the season of migration. 



Of the waders which in the spring and fall teeter along 

 the bank of the Bronx River, only a pair or two of spotted 



NEST OF Juxco. 



sandpipers remain throughout the nesting period, content 

 to lay their eggs in some retired spot in the corner of a 

 field, where there is the least danger to them and to the 

 fluffy balls of long-legged down which later appear and 

 scurry about. The great horned owl and the red-tailed 

 hawk formerly nested in the park, but the frequent noise 



