Show WHERE EAGLES BUILD NESTS inaccessible spots always selected for the home A writer who has studied the habits of eagles among the scottish him hills sir says that the birds construct their eyrie toward the end of march anil and the eggs which number two or three are laid in april eagles seem to prefer tor for a nesting site otte some ancient pine with a southern position and wide outlook or a ledge on a cliff but this writer noticed that they sometimes build their obries on quite small rocks where they can be got at without much difficulty while all around are Im immense meries precipices where mans foot has never doter trod it has been said that the eagles will fearlessly attack any ono one attempting to rob its eggs and but this Is probably much less often the case than Is generally supposed when one of a pair of eagles Is trap ped or shot the remaining bird hai bai often great difficulty in finding a mate mata and may haunt its nesting site for several years by itself while soaring round and round their eyrie the eagles utter a musical note somewhat similar to the cry of a wild goose |