THE OOLOGIST. 



The Oologist. 



A Moni.hly Magazine Devoted to 

 OOLOGY AND ORNITHOLOGY. 



FRANK H. LATTIN, Editor and Publisher, 

 ALBION, N. Y. 



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Great Blue Herons. 



For three weeks had we been making 

 calculations to visit a heronry, which 

 we were told was in a black ash swamp 

 some ten miles from here. We had 

 lived here for upwards of forty years 

 and had not learned of its existence un- 

 til last year. 



As we could only go on Saturday 

 when the boys were out of school, and 

 it had rained for two or three succeed- 

 ing Saturdays, we began to think that 



we should be disappointed until May 

 12th, which bidding fair for a pleasant 

 day, we hitched up and taking an oolo- 

 gist's paraphernala and our dinners we 

 started oflf. 



A very pleasant ride, but longer than 

 necessary, as we got beyond the object 

 of our search before enquiring and 

 were then told that it was half a mile 

 back and some twenty or thirty rods 

 off the road. 



They said we would find lots of 

 Cranes as they were there the other 

 day and shot fifteen of them, but we 

 must look out and take a stick along 

 for they would tight if we disturbed 

 their nests. 



We went as directed and sure enough 

 there they were and as we approached 

 their quiet retreat they left their nests 

 in great numbers and flew round and 

 round uttering their coarse gutteral 

 notes of alarm. 



A hundred or hundred and fifty such 

 large birds winging their way slowly 

 around in circles overhead seemed to 

 till the air and was a sight that will not 

 soon be forgotten. 



Occasionally would they light on a 

 nest and then off again, or would settle 

 down on some of the topmost branches 

 of the tall trees on limbs that hardly 

 seemed capable of holding up a Robin, 

 with wings half spread and in constant 

 motion to help balance themselves on 

 their tall stilt-like legs on the swaying 

 limb, they seemed much better adapted 

 for a habitation on terra tirma than in 

 mid air. 



Their nests too were a sight to behold. 

 Built away in the tops of the trees on 

 limbs that did not seem capable of 

 holding them up, as big as a two bushel 

 basket, and from one to eight in a tree 

 we thought we had got paid for our 

 drive if we got no eggs. 



Our next object was to see what was 

 in them. The empty, broken shells 

 underneath told us that many had 

 hatched and we might be too late. 



