ADVENTURES WITH BIRDS OF PREY 



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DOWN COMES JOHN CRAIGHEAD ON A ROPE AFTER PHOTOGRAPHING BALD EAGLES 



He spent several hours aloft taking pictures of the birds in their eyrie, 80 feet above the ground in a huyc 

 sycamore (page 125). The boys usually climbed the tree with spurs, but in descending it was easier and 

 quicker to tie a rope around the waist and be lowered by friends on the ground. Once, in trying to climb up 

 the rope, Frank nearly fell (p. 132). A true American, the bald eagle ranges north to Alaska and northern 

 Quebec and south to central Mexico. One of these "birds of freedom," named "Miss America," was taken to 

 England and trained in falconry by Captain C. W. R. Knight, who has also flown British and African eagles. 



