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nest. I thought it was high time to see the inside of it, and 

 started up the tree. Before I had gotten halfway up all doubt 

 about the nest being occupied was settled. The old bird would 

 come at me like a bullet, and just sheer off at the last moment. 

 She did not utter a sound during the charge. I found the nest 

 all completed and lined and ready for the eggs. The nest is 

 about 60 feet up in a white pine. 



' ' I did not go near the nest again until April 2. Then I 

 took a friend along with me who is an expert lineman and is 

 interested in photography. It was a rather bad morning, 

 snowing and several inches of snow on the ground in the moun- 

 tains. When we came in sight of the nest all was quiet. I hit 

 the tree with a stone, and the female at once left. Contrary to 

 our expectations she refused to come back again, in marked 

 contrast to her former behavior. Both old birds sat off in the 

 big pines and called, but refused to come near. My friend 

 went up and photographed the nest and eggs. There were 

 three eggs. The nest was so big and wide that I gave up the 

 notion of taking it along. The eggs were perfectly fresh. 



^ ' On April 20 I found the female sitting upon one of two 

 old hawks' nests in the same neighborhood which had been 

 used for several seasons by Redtails, and on May 20 I returned 

 expecting to secure the young birds. To my surprise I found 

 that the eggs had been destroyed, apparently by a Crow or Red 

 Squirrel, and the nest deserted. The Goshawks, however, were 

 still about, and I soon discovered that they had two fresh eggs 

 in the other old nest, making the third set that they had laid 

 this season. 



" It was July 2nd before we again visited the spot prepared to 

 capture the young which we felt sure were pretty well fledged 

 by this time. 



' ' All was quiet as we drew near the nest and we began to- 

 wonder whether some accident had happened again, when sud- 

 denly up among the limbs of the trees ahead of us the female 

 bird appeared, and came straight at our heads with wings half 

 closed, but making no sound. 



* ' So close did she come that we instinctively ducked our 

 heads. As she passed she screamed and was at once answered 



