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of birds and removed by them to the tree it now occupies after the 
one which held their old nest had been blown down. Both birds 
rarely if ever leave their nest at the same time in the course of the 
whole year. While one goes to the bay for fish the other remains at 
the nest or at least in the same small piece of woods awaiting the 
return of her mate or sometimes starting out when she sees him coming. 
No wonder they feel some solicitude for the home where they have 
reared so many broods of young and where their abode has been winter 
and summer for so many years. Occasionally they are visited by a 
third whom we may suppose to be one of their grown up children re- 
‘turning after long absence to his parents for advice. At any rate he 
is so well received that he is apt to stay several months. 
At this nest two new eaglets, or sometimes only one, are reared each 
year, but they wander far away from home before they are old enough 
to find mates and start a new family, for these are only one or two new 
nests within many miles around. ‘There is another old one about three 
miles east of this, not far from Piccolo station; another between Port 
‘Clinton and Peachton, and one 26 or 27 years old on Kelly’s Island. 
There is also one nest on Put-in-Bay, one on Middle Bass, on North 
Bass and on Sugar Island. So far as I can learn all the nests are 
believed by the people that live near them to have been occupied con- 
tinuously by the same pair of birds for many years. At each nest one 
bird remains while the other goes in search of food. The pair on 
Kelly’s Island commenced a new nest, near their old one, about two 
years ago, and have worked on it a number of times since, but have not 
yet used it. They are supposed to be getting ready to move, on 
account of the tree containing the old nest being dead. Most of the 
nests are about 50 feet from the ground and appear to be five 
or six feet high and four or five across. The birds raise only one brood 
a year, and rarely, if ever, more than two in a brood, but these two they 
usually succeed in bringing up, and as eagles are rarely killed in this 
region, many that are raised here must go elsewhere to live. Quite 
likely they go farther north, yet it would seem as if the American 
Eagle were disinclined to make a permanent home beyond the limits of 
the republic that has adopted it. Perhaps the freezing of the Canadian 
streams and lakes from which they draw their supply of fish in mild 
weather drives them south to the Great Lakes. At any rate there are 
many more eagles on the peninsula in winter than in summer. Two 
years ago more than fifty were seen at one time on the ice covering what 
