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over the lakes, now against the mountain-side, finally disappoai-ing 

 in twinkling white flashes in the distance. As we watched, thinking 

 he had gone, back he came calling, with a fish in his claws, held 

 head-on to cut the air as he flew. 



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Fig. 55. — Nest of osprey. 



Early the next morning I took my stand at Fish Hawk Point, 

 where I spent a large part of the day. A parent and both young were 

 standing on the nest on my arrival, one leaning over eating. Pres- 

 ently the parent raised its head and looked over in my direction; 

 then liftino- its wings and spreading them wide, flew straight across 



