Love those Broad-wings

Trail Wood #103 Earl Plato

Edwin and Nellie Teale were fascinated with their resident broad-wings. We read on.
“ Some days ago our broad-wings came home, home to their old nesting area in a secluded part of Seven Springs Slope in the South Woods. Home from South America after a round trip of thousands of miles over land and water. Since then the woods have echoed with the “whee-ooou” of their mating call repeated in the air from perch to perch. Before long we will see at the high fork of some maple tree a stick nest growing in size. To it the birds will add at intervals twigs and small branches with he green foliage still attached. In the weeks that follow we will encounter the mated birds “frogging” along the brooks and hunting for chipmunks in the woods. We will see them searching for prey on the wing or perched motionless on a lower limb. They peer downward for some slight sign of movement below.”