Show edward be dark clark tells about those s S birds of prey in america whose bad glam mm habits good points outweigh sharp the chinned shinned and cooper as hawks are the worst 1 culprits look out PI yass for them OF OF y sit it pa s IN jr ilk 4 r v 4 is s 1 it 41 1 IZ las y f I 1 lh ib an easy in task L but A not at altogether doca h r a con can genial one to write beat about tile the hawks ot of Anice america iric in whose lives the evil outweighs the good ft hen one sets down block black marks against a birds bird a char chao cor he wide invites death for or the bir bird d and this la is not a IN pleasant bregant thing to d do A tor or one ae who bellev believes AS that the interest which bich a n bird of evil III disposition P adds to so tile the general scheme of f life ought to he be sufficient to save the ilia species train from extermination ebe even en it if it dearly loves a a c chicken irked tor for dinner and a somi cone bird I 1 tor breakfast it 1 la easy to write about the injure ua AS books hs of this country because r there fluer are so few A of them most of our ur birds of prey the hawks and the als la do more good than harm there re only a scant half dozen or so a into w khom hoon nature has implanted the desire tor for sill eil der deeds it nature Is supposed to so do ever thing or at any my rate almost orce everything well and so a it may my be that if f we MI kill the bold butau buccaneer bu caneer neer birds w who ta a bobit do a bit of thieving now and file then w we cia may rue it one are day for far some a I 1 reason not net yet disclosed to the human mind the ilia scientists tell us that perhaps the two most injurious hawks in amer lea am are the thorp sharp shinned chinned and tile the coup coop er hawks these two birds do a large part pan of the thic thieving mg ft inch the arm arm of at the countr country y lay at the door of at the ons wailing upil hawk the rod red tailed the he red ed shouldered h A slid and some a others the sharp shinned chinned gentleman called accle t r velox IN by the alsta Is 1 as somebody somebody has put it a brute of a bird vernon bailey baday of the to t biological bile stcl survey samey of at the depart asse ment of at agriculture it lure has baa written thus bout about tills 11 bcd of more than question able life if ame aifong A g the haw hawks it k the sharp sI firmed la in a ve veritable 1 bush bushwhacker WI bulk his hia light body short wa wings and long tall tail so enable life him to double and ad to turn among the brush and it branches and ad I 1 in K Subs eleas say nay pounce over a bed hedgerow geus or air brush heap into the midst of a flock of sparrows swoop older the I 1 low w branches and pick his bird 1 from the ground or dart dam through the treetops and snatch one in midair from the midst of a B startled larded florl flock HIS hf am small sir size la a so GO much athe more than corn a lo lomeater pen sated by ilia his audacity that one bird often becomes became tile the terror or c the poul try yard mid taking ilg the it and ad halt half frown chicke chickens regularly and ad some times him killing I 1 mad and eating a folluo tull grown heo hen of many times time it its ow own weight if 1 once saw a hauk im ilk w wp woop P dona into a flock of LASH sh burm on an one of it tin crowded cor car ners of the city of chicago A trolley car r nes nas thundering maturing along at the moment id the p chinned shinned a made mad its descent cut it missed I 1 I 1 prey much to my for I 1 don t like english spa sparrow anin alj I 1 have a sa sneak sak k ing admiration dall tion for the bold bird which w hiell dares to make fal n try for its breakfast DO matter what shat perna perils impend the cooper howl hank called by the eel act models enlists Acel piter coo mo peril Is just as much of a villain if lou on want to look at him that way as aa I 1 ia his brother A ac elpiner re it velox 1 I tills this bird Is 1 just jug as aa darine a aa the ned 1 and being somewhat larger I 1 la able to stuck attack successfully larger prey dr be A K fisher 11 the foremost foremast american authority on the birds of prey has this to a say my about the freebooter under it dis cession Cosi cooper pr s hawk which w resembles resemble the sharp chinned shinned hawk ban k clo closely Y 1 la everything except size shia Is to less a north h a ern in its distribution the paid food of this hawk book ilk like that of its do smaller congener consists consist almost c en of wild add birds and poultry though from its superior size and strength it Is able to cope successfully with much larger birds and hen bence is much more to 0 be dreaded the flight of this his species is ia very rapid irregular and nd usually is carried at no BO great height from rom the ground 1 in au 11 these P cju lure ora closely resembling that of at the he hawk book one of the roost most destructive of the american birds of prey to Is the goshawk otherwise lua I 1 tie he goalie goshawk k ta Is a big bird some thing more than a foot feet and ad a half I 1 ia length e suit aad seemingly it he has the strength of well vie a wool wont eay ten tell but two its ito nesting place is either 1 in the mountains or way up in a the north era ra regions regional it preys on game birdi bird and ad rabbits in the summer bummer season and ad in ID the winter while it comes came train from its it summer home to take pike ita his pick of the fat poultry of tile the load land the goshawk ts is a daring and a hardy bird it typifies the wild hit life of fountai moun tai talu and ad plain and a as immich such it seemingly be allowed to keep its place in natures nature a plan but sentiment usually 1 Is allowed to count c t tor far little when the loss im of a prize r rooster far or a uen Is in the other side aide of tl the balance NOW aw we get away 7 irom from the cel pitr anil and get into I 1 the th genus colim rolim the th duck hawk falsco 1 IB a true we fair falcon Flaire florence ame merriam Merr laro balloy baley 1 lu her handbook of birds bird of the western united states blates says that the duck dark hawk ranks rank next to the goa gm hawk as a fierce bird of prey acco accord it ing to my wily way of looking at it bad as the bird is any man v ho he obort shoots it a ought u to be shot himself the duck h hawk all has that high courage which ought to appeal to ever everybody body w who he has red oil blood in him on ill his own A S account I 1 he duck duch hank book ile flies us gift and as a straight atral ROt rus as the proverbial irrow no lo 10 poultry mior has any grudge against this falcon for it disdains tame tied and humble quarry and d HM uke like an a epicure almost wholly holly upon game th the duck h k A will III strike down in mid add air ar a bird of twice its weight belll I 1 and it will overtake tile the swiftest winged duck that files aliea he ce Is a P pirate veto and ad eiery wag thing else that 1 is bad but he be lives the ibe fr free und ad u a untrammeled trammeled life w aich nature taught him t to a live and ad so if tt it I 1 la num necessary sury to kill batting go and ad kill nature tare there probe probably b ly eve ara no hil cloma h haaka wk 1 ID if alie united states state except those which haie hae been named of course into dils qualified statement may be b disputed but far or the most part our S rac it han aks ks are known to b be A bene A fical and concerning those about which there them 1 Is some doubt the balance of good and evil seems to be just about even the hawks that have been m albas named ad and ad 1 in part described are I 1 as ono one might say the worst sent of the bunco bunch |