Show a N N Wr J. I- I r irY 1 y if n 1 N fO J. J O L 6 oe O 5 1 1 Y H i to V v 1 Y Y O ft t IX t tH I J JC C t t e J S vJ ow y p M 0 o t J I Oto w j xV 4 Af V VV V VV 1 i J if I Asa Nt Ii i I II I ey year year Americas America's birds get fewer in number This Is because cf ct their No 1 enemy man Most I 1 L r rus s do far more good than i harm with of course a few ex ex- c I eX-I This is t the observation n of Ar- Ar rod Smith 19 of Morgan who I i hi 81 83 bird eggs identified in his I At least 73 are native to Morgan orga County I O. O Oie e. e spring pring he took his camera a t tit ro role n his bicycle all ar around und I 1 M 16 rr r-in r n of of Cedar WaxWing Waxe WaxWing Wax- Wax Wing nes nest After r a- a 7 Ji e- e or iw J i days he stopped under undera a L Li g tree tree and lay down to restI rest I looked up and to my surprise surprise surprise sur sur- prise there was a Cedar Waxwing to locking down over the edge of her nest at me he laughed 1 Birds have surprised me time t time time and and I hope they always will I J i Bird hunting Is not without its hazards s. s In July 1961 Arnold found a a. a g golden eagle eyrie nesting nesting nest- nest ing ing site alte 25 yards up the side of ja o cliff cUff which extended another 15 IS yards above above the nest I He climbed the opposite side tilde W and jand id was thrilled t to look down on ona I a young golden e eagle yearly old enough ough to fly It is practically impossible to approach the mature mature ma ma- I ture birds The following day he hI return return- return return-I returned ed eid with his camera and climbed I Ithe I I It the e face of ot the cliff to a ledge near near the nest The climbing was much more difficult than he had hadt t thought b but bt t what was worse he eo come ne to a spot where he could Neither ther get up or or down I I i I His His- only escape was the ledge about eight feet above him He made a desp desperate rate Jump caught th fh th ledge with his hands and pulled P himself up He took his Ills pictures and found another way down town Boy was I 1 glad to get down from that cliff he ex- ex claimed I When Arnold began collecting egos egl's in I 1958 he did not know it was wa against the law Although Ili he w w.-uld w. uld take taka only one egg from froma it a nest which some species of bids replaced he quit when he jarnell l it was Illegal He now renn re- re II nn his camera to capture th th-lr th it beau beauy II and to identify the bird with her nest He be- be 1 with to a simple box camera but now has an Exacta Exacts WIth telephoto len lens His photo album has pictures in J. J 1 jl 11 white pad clad In spier all p properly perlY identified d fled He alsO alsa I II I l has several books on bird life Ufe itch ilch help identify birds and tellof tell tellof I of of at their haf habits I always have thought that I birds were wonderful he said The way they could fly their I bright plumage and their beautiful I ful songs fascinated me I 1 would watch a bird perhaps a robin tobin or sparrow build its nest Then Theil I I I watch at h the eggs occasionally until they hatched I would watch the i parent birds feed the young until I they could fly away away on their thel own 1 Arnold said that contrary to tot tot i popular belief birds birds' birdsnest nest through throughout out the summer Clarks Clark's nutcrackers nut nutcrackers crackers nest as early as Feb nut 1 horned larks have two Or three broods which may run to to- tolate late l I July or August mourning doves t which lay only two eggs and i robins have tv o or three broods The cowbird h he related lays I r its eggs in the nest of other other- birds such as the yellow warbler j jor I or the blackbird The eggs of this bird hatch in lu 11 d days ys so it grows strong enough to push the other eggs or young g gout out and he usually ends up the I Ionly only s survivor 1 There are birds that can be I seen in Utah sometimes during a year About of those nest nestI I In U Utah This year Arnold Amold has hag traveled to Logan Logan Logan- Woodruff Orem and I Parson Farson Wyoming In search ot of birds to photograph He has also found that animals and reptiles are good subjects I L I I One day this summer John Ball BalI and I chased a weasel up a ati ti tree ee while I 1 went for my camera I j I got a couple of or quick pictures l lia e got worried made a dash for forthe i the ground but was quickly cut cutoff cutoff off olf by ground forces On his way back up the tree the varmint mistook me for part of the tree and almost ran up my pant leg I 1 retreated to a nearby limb I f We finally tapped him over the head with a stick and put him in a a cage John kept him by feeding him cat food food until he chewed his way out of the the- cage |