Page:Bird-lore Vol 06.djvu/37



LONG-EARED OWL ON NEST WITH YOUNG Photographed by L.S. Horton at Hyde Park, N. Y., May 17, 1904

The nest was in a maple tree about twenty-five feet from the ground. The picture was secured by fastening the camera in an ash, about six feet away, attaching sixty feet of tubing, and on the return of the parent Owl, making a 20-second exposure. While the camera was beingremoved the Owls vigorously attacked the intruder, coming to within three feet of his head, or, alighting on a near-by limb, with ruffled feathers and drooping wings, uttering a loud, cat-like mewing.