Identifier: ologistforstud331916latt (find matches)
Title: The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Lattin, Frank H
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: Albion, N.Y. : Frank H. Lattin
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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sting in the stub and onJune 29th a set of Flicker eggs wasfound in the old Sparrow Hawk nest. May 19, 1915. Marsh Hawk. Whiletramping around in a weedy patch onthe edge of the Skopie Slough wherea pair of Hawks nested last year, Iflushed a female from a nest and fiveeggs. On May 25th after a heavy threeday rain the nest was found in a footand a half of water with eggs broken.About 25 feet from here an AmericanBitterns nest was found with threeeggs which had also been flooded out. Out of the nine Red-shoulderedHawk nests found this year by afriend and I, we were only attackedonce while climbing to them. All thenests were found near Highland Park,Lake County, Illinois. Colin Campbell Sanborn.Evanston, 111. A Wisconsin Herony.Some twenty-five years ago I discov-ered a fair sized herony of the BlackCrowned Night, and the green. It hadjust been shot up by some boys andthe nest robbed; dead birds lay allabout. I later obtained a few nicesets from here of each species. There THE OOLOGIST 27
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Dr. W. F. Blackmon, President Florida Audubon Society, with youngBald Eaglets in his hands —Photo by Oscar E. Baynard 28 THE OOLOGIST was maybe a hundred nests of bothkind. The boys kept shooting thebirds and breaking the eggs until theyentirely broke it up and I thought Ihad seen the last of the herons in thislocality, because mainly the scarcity ofsuitable nesting sites; so, if youplease, imagine my agreeable surprisewhen on Christmas Day, 1915, I dis-covered a new herony in a piece ofvirgin timber, containing about thirtynests, all in good condition and appar-ently of the Black Crowned variety.George W. H. vosBurgli, A Young Red-Tail.Madam Red-tail (Buteo borealis)certainly expressed wisdom when sheselected the main flock of a giant ashas a nesting site and would have re-mained in undisturbed possession hadshe displayed an equal sagacity in va-cating at our approach but she calmlysat upon her lofty domicile regardlessof the noise made by application ofirons and clubs to the tree

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