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Show Fishhawk Nest on Telephone Pole. Fishhawks built their nests on the Providence-Fall river toll line of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, in the town of Swanzey. The fiishhawks feed in the small streams that flow into Mount Hope flwv. bay, and build their nests in nearby trees or other convenient places. The best place seems to be on the top of a high pole and where there are plenty of wires to hold the foundation for a nest and also to protect them. They usually ' build in late spring or f early summer. Trouble does not show up on the wires unless there is a lot of wet weather. It has been so dry tj? summer that the nest has not been located lo-cated and taken down. Probably in this case the hawks have had their "young and departed. " It is not easy to take down one of these nests, as the material used is woven in and about the wires. It is especially hard when the nests are occurypd. Three or four years ago a rn Jineman was sent to take one down Ll had to call for help from a near-by near-by farmhouse, as the hawks attacked him and tore his clothing badly before be-fore he could get the nest down. Telephone Topics. |