More Arborial ’Chucks 
AVING seen a small article in your 
wonderful magazine, (September 
issue) on woodchucks climbing trees, by 
J. Raymond Holsopple, thought I would 
write a few lines on the same subject. 
I thoroughly agree with Mr. Hols 
opple, as I have killed two woodchucks 
in trees. 
One time while coming from town, 
I saw a “chuck” in the top.of a large 
tree. So, being near home, I secured 
my rifle and returned to the tree and 
found him still there. This was the 
first one I had seen in a tree, so I 
promptly shot it. 
Another time, while fishing, my dog 
chased one up a tree. This one hap- 
pened to be a half. grown “chuck.” I 
had my rifle with me and killed him 
also. There is no doubt in my mind but 
that they do climb trees, frequently. 
ELTON CHAPMAN, 
Drummond, Wis. 

Morals in Nature 
(Continued from page 652) 
Moreover the young haws migrate 
southward in the fall, while the older 
ones are more apt to inhabit the same 
area of woodland winter and summer, 
and I have yet to see a pair of hawks 
whose plumage did not indicate that 
they were of practically the same age. 
HOSE that remain here are silent 
and retiring through the winter, 
but before the first return flight of the 
young hawks from the south, these long 
mated couples, begin their springtime 
wooing, rising and circling together 
high above the tree tops, their shrill 
voices heralding the spring as clearly 
to my ears, as any note of robin or 
bluebird. 
The falcons and goshawks nest far- 
ther north, and are rarely seen south of 
forty-five degrees north latitude, except 
in cool weather, and then usually in 
pairs. I remember a cold wave in De- 
cember thirty years ago when a pair of 
goshawks in young plumage tried to 
steal some of my poultry. I saw them 
one zero morning at sunrise perched in 
the top of an elm tree, watching the 
hens which I had let out to scratch be- 
neath an open shed. I got my gun and 
shot the female and as she fell, her 
mate followed her earthward and flew 
repeatedly back and forth just over her 
as she lay there on the crusted snow; 
then rising into the air he went off to 
the northward into the teeth of the gale. 
The killing of one of a pair like this, 
always leaves me with a feeling of re- 
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