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tents. In going np many limbs snapped without warning and it behooved me 
to proceed very cautiously. After a hard climb, in some respects among the 
most difficult and dangerous I have ever made, I reached the nest at the top 
of the pine 112 feet up. The huge affair, of pine boughs and twigs, about four 
feet across, Avas so situated that it was difficult to see into the nest cavity 
itself. After some maneuvering, however, I succeeded in getting slightly above 
its outer edge and in peering over, when three eggs on an almost level bed of 
soft green moss, mixed with pine needles and bits of wood, met my gaze. The 
eggs were apparently but slightly incubated, and ivhile heavily marked were in 
no wise peculiar. 
Next morning, accompanied by Mr. Cady, the locality was revisited and 
the photographs shown herewith, taken. I endeavored to get a picture of the 
Fig. 24. The second Osprey’s nest found. It avas 
75 FEET UP, IN A DEAD PINE STANDING IN DEEP 
WATER AT TIIE EDGE OF AN ISLAND 
bird as she returned from time to time to the nest, but in this I Avas not suc- 
cessful as the constant swaying of the boat made photography of any kind 
rather difficult. 
Although Ave only rowed a short distance from Spalding’s, five more 
occupied nests of the Osprey were noted. The lake shore here is a succession 
of coves and it is an interesting fact that the nests were spaced about equi- 
distant, from one another. The second nest Avas 75 feet up in a dead pine 
standing in deep water at the edge of an island. As the head of a sitting 
Osprey was scarcely discernible on the ground glass, the bird Avas roused, and 
Avhile Cady and Littlejohn explored the upper end of the island, with camera 
set I awaited the bird’s return. The picture sIioavs the parent, Avith pendant 
legs, just dropping into the nest. At the upper end of the inlet another nest,, 60 
