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Show $ J HOW l J PARENT HAVENS PROTECT J ? NESTLINGS FROM HARM. 4 "I was once concealed In my I 'hide,' watching and photo- ? graphing a pair of ravens st 2 ? their nest on a wild and jjj 1 jjj desolate crag on the Welsh I J mountains," writes Oliver Q. J J I'lke, English ornithologist in I jj the London Speelator. "Among J a other things I discovered Uiat . they have a language of tlieir I i, own. Several times during the J ' I eight hours I spent in my I f shelter the parents brought jjj k food to their young. aji jjj "Long before the former got jjj to within sight of the nest the I ; jjj young heard the loud call which I 4 told them food was coming, jjj - When they heard this they be- jjj came very excited, ran about jjj i the nest and gave out answer- jjj Ing cries. Twice during the jjj ,1 day a man passed over the i jjj mountains and the parent raven jjj J on guard high over the nest J i jjj seeing him and looking upon the X f intruder as an enemy, uttered J .i X quite a different call. j ''Instantly the three young i birds threw themselves flat In jjj the nest and remained quite jjj i motionless until they heard a jjj third cry, which again was dif- jjj ' ferent from the others, which ? j told ,nera tl,e coast was clear- Z Then they quickly Jumped up jjj and were Immediately at ease." jjj f |
