The Spotted Owl 
1 
Taken in Los Angeles County 
From a photograph. Copyright 1921, 
by Wright M. Pierce 
“WE VOTE HIM HANDSOME” 
grown young. The sit¬ 
uation was an old 
Raven’s nest, placed 65 
feet up in a pothole, on 
a perpendicular cliff of 
conglomerate over 200 
feet high. Fortunately 
the nesting-site was 
commanded by trees, 
and the old birds were 
very accommodating, as 
our accompanying illus¬ 
trations show. Indeed, 
the behavior of the old 
birds throughout the 
period of Mr. Dickey’s 
study was a compound 
of fearlessness, con¬ 
fidence, and placid 
1 Condor, Vol. XVI., Sept., 1914, 
pp. 193-202. 
this nest a set of two eggs was secured 
April 1, 1909, and a set of three, with 
the parent birds, March 30, 1910. 
On the 15th of May, 1913, Mr. 
Donald R. Dickey 1 with two assist¬ 
ants, working in the mountains of 
Ventura County, found a Spotted 
Owl’s nest which contained two well- 
Taken in Ventura County Photo by Dickey 
A FEATHER-BED BABY 
