Copyright, by I,. S Horton 

 LONG- EARED OWL ON NEST WITH YOUNG 

 Photographed by L. S. Horton, at Hyde Hark, N. Y., May 17, iqoj 



The nest was in a maple tree about twenty-five feet from the groimd. The picture 

 was secured by fastening the camera in an ash, about six feet away, attaching sixty feet of 

 tubing, and on the return of the parent Owl, making a 20-second exposure. While the 

 camera was being removed the Owls vigorously attacked the intruder, coming to within 

 three feet of his head, or, alighting on a near-by limb, with rufHed feathers and drooping 

 wings, uttering a loud, cat-like mewing. 



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