Jan., 1914 
NOTES ON NESTING OF THE SHARP-SIIINNED HAWK 
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as soon as 1 could with a camera outfit, as the location was just about an hour’s 
trip from my home. 
The nesting site was again reached late in the afternoon of the i8th. The 
male bird was not in sight ; a slight rap on the tree and the female left the nest 
as upon my first visit and perched on a limb of a large fir which proved to be her 
regular loading and firing station during all my visits. Owing to numerous 
limbs it was impossible to haul up anything from the ground with a rope, so I 
placed my camera outfit in a pack-sack on my back and ascending to the nest 
fastened the sack to adjacent limbs. 
In contemplating a photograph of the nest in its natural situation 1 began to 
realize that I had no small task on hand. The limbs below the nest were too low 
to afford a working position, and just above the nest the limbs were too close. 
Fig. 9. Nesting Locaeity of Sharp-shinned Hawk near Coeur d’ Aeene, Idaho; 
TOP OF NEST TREE AT CROSS (X) ; TAEE TRE;E NEAR CENTER, REIGULAR EOOKOUT 
STATION FOR FEMAEE HAWK 
so much so as to interfere greatly with the camera adjustments. As it was 
getting late and the light was growing poor 1 had to get busy. I lashetl a small 
tripod to the trunk of the tree in a horizontal position and with the aid of a tilt- 
ing attachment was able to get a vertical adjustment showing the eggs and a 
portion of the nest. A strong wind came up while I was focusing and I was in 
constant fear of dropping some part of the outfit on to the eggs ; and at the rate 
the tree was swaying I was not sure of my own safety. 
The light had grown so weak that a time exposure was necessary, and it 
began to look as if T would not have much success. As T had worked so hard 
already I thought I would take a chance, and so exjiosed three plates. T had 
to descend below the nest at each exposure to lessen the weight at the top of the 
