Mar., 1915 NESTING OF THE AMERICAN OSPREY AT EAGLE LAKE 
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feet up at the top of a limbless dead pine, was noted and on the opposite side 
of the cove two more were seen in similar situations 50 feet and 35 feet up. 
respectively. A photograph is shown of the latter nest, and it well illustrates 
the construction and situation of the other two. 
Crossing a narrow neck of land I came to a second cove and although I 
went but a few hundred feet I came to another nest 50 feet up. This, like all 
others, was in a dead pine and similar in situation to the second nest found. If 
the balance of the timbered coves on the lower end of Eagle Lake harbor 
Fig. 25. The fifth Osprey’s nest found. It was but 35 feet above 
the water of Eagle Lake 
as many homes of the Osprey as do those near Spalding the number of these 
birds in the region must be surprisingly large, and as this, so far as I know, is 
the only definite inland breeding area in California, it becomes a point of par- 
ticular interest and deserving of especial protection from hunters who usually 
regard all Eaptores with disfavor. The Eagle Lake region at present is very 
sparsely populated and I was particularly impressed with the distinctly prime- 
val conditions of its birdlife, the great tree colonies of Great Blue Herons 
