Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1913 — Nests of the Golden Eagle. [ARTICLE]

Nests of the Golden Eagle.

Every pair of eagles whose habits I have had an opportunity of watching over a period of a few years would seem to have invariably at least two alternative sites for their nests. Some have three, and I know of one with four sites. In fact, I only know of one pair out of many which habitually resort to but one plafe and only one. The reason for this is, however, apparent, tor owing to its situation It has never been disturbed. The nest is in a small cavern on (he face of an absolute wall of limestone rock some 800 feet high, at about 400 feet from the summit. Above the cliff is a talus of loose stone at an angle of fortyfive dgrees or so, above which again other precipices. To reach the nearest point above this nest would be a long day's work. —London Saturday Review.