sensible plan than that of trying to rim into 

 such territory "by directly trudging through 

 the swamps, marshes anrl thick underbrush we 

 knew lay" between the beach and. the main high*- 

 way. Another point in adopting this plan was 

 brought out by the fact that the beach would 

 lead°us to our original destination, the 

 mouth of Little Creek. At, this part of the 

 beach 1 had observed the preceding summer 

 when crossing the my from. Cape Charles, a 

 few eagles perched, on several snags that iut 

 prominently up from the sand dunes. One or two 

 of these snag's were characterized by having a 

 large nest, nossibly that of an eagle* 



Bo, with this idea in mind we set out from 

 Chesapeake Beach. Our ecuiptment included a 

 repeating Winchester rifle, 50* of 



f'M-anila rope, a pair of climbing, irons, an 

 Argus Camera, a canteen, my collecting case, 

 and a gallon ,1ug of water. We walked about a 

 mile when we spotted a prospective patch of 

 pines and. decided to investigate it. Realizing 

 the awkwardness in carrying the ,1ug of water 

 through heaw underbrush and the fact that we 

 were already" heavily loaded, we each 6 rank: ^ as 

 much, of the"' water as we could and hid the lup- 

 in the sand, dunes. 



^he chances of finding a nest in this group 

 of nines looked very good and our enthusiasm 

 ma. greatly increased/ when we observed a Bald 

 Hagle in the second -year plumage fly from the 

 top of a dead tree in the edge of the pines, 

 however we were doomed to disappointment when, 

 after an exhaustive search no sign of a nest 

 was found. 



We left this area and soon came upon one 

 which was even more suitable for our purpose, 

 another bird, a. bit. more advanced toward full 

 adult plumage than "'the first, one encountered, 

 was flushed from this area but with the seme 

 disappointing result as before. We were really 

 beginning to wonder if we weren't mistaken 

 about the possibility of these birds nesting 

 «n-™here in this region since this growth of 

 trees seemed ideal for them. 



