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How I Spent Easter Monday. 



It-had been my intentions for several 

 years to have a good days collecting in 

 the early spring chiefly for Hawks as I 

 have had poor success in the past. This 

 year an opportunity offered so my bro- 

 ther and I started off early in the morn- 

 ing we had to walk well over a mile till 

 Me came to any woods at all. We had 

 not got through the first woods before 



I noticed a nest that I knew must be a 

 new one on occount of the small white 

 feathers sticking to the lower twigs of 

 the nest and on the trunk of the tree. I 

 have observed these feathers on every 

 new hawks nest I have found. As I did 

 not see any birds around I could not tell 

 what kind it was till I was half way up 

 the tree when a pair of Cooper's Hawk's 

 began making their peculiar cry. The 

 nest was 64 feet from the ground in a 

 straight maple, built on the second 

 branch it was composed of sticks lined 

 with grass, leaves and green cedar twigs 

 it contained five eggs, three light colored 

 spotted with small dark spots while two 

 were thickly dotted with larger spots. 

 The next nest was found at the bottom 

 of the hill, it was only reached after a 

 hard climb, as the tree was very thick 

 and two large limbs were growing out 

 about half way up. This proved to be 

 a Red-shouldered Hawk's nest, and con* 

 tained three eggs, the nest was 60 1 - 2 

 feet from the ground, it was smaller than 

 the nest of the Cooper's Hawk, but much 

 the same except that it contained no 

 green twigs the eggs were a very pretty 

 set, heavily spotted and blotched with 

 a reddish brown color, while the shells 

 were covered with purple ground mark* 

 ings. The next nest we found about a 

 mile and a half further on, it proved to 

 be a Red-tailed Hawk's nest but it was 

 in such a large elm tree I conld not get 

 to it. I climbed the tree next to it and 

 tried to dip the eggs out with a fish net- 

 but I could not get high enough to see 

 into the nest so I only got one cracked 

 specimen while the other two got broken. 

 The one I rescued was light colored 

 thinly spotted with dull red spots. My 

 next nest was also a Red-tail, and in an 

 elm tree no doubt what, that tree lacked 

 in width it made up in height the nest 

 was placed as high as it was possible, in 

 fact at the extreme top on a limb not 

 over three inches in diameter it was 91J 

 feet from the ground and rocked so 

 much in the high wind that both the 



