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Volume VII J anuary-F ebruary, 1905 Number 1 
Photographing the Aerie of a Western Red-tail 
BY WILLIAM LOVELL FINLEY 
ILLUSTRATED BY HERMAN T. BOHLMAN 
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I F there is another red-tail in the county that has found a nesting site higher 
than the one in the cotton- 
wood over the bank of the 
Columbia river, we have never 
seen it. A red-tail likes a high 
commandingsite just asa mallard 
searches the sedge grass about 
the pond for a home. This pair 
of hawks surely found it. We 
would never have discovered the 
aerie, had we not searched the 
bottom when the trees were 
leafless. 
Finding a red-tail’s nest is 
very different in Oregon from 
what it is in California. You 
may look through the forest of 
tall firs till you are blind, or 
search the river bottoms for miles 
and not find the trace of a nest. 
But it seems that every little 
canyon of the California hills has 
its red-tail, and all you have to 
do to find a nest is to sit at the 
outlet and scan the trees with 
your field glass. 
We have found few nests that 
are absolutely beyond human 
touch, but it has taken a deal of photographer at work, ,20 ft. from the ground 
