Florence A. Merriam, Bird-Lore: Volume I No. 2 — Clark’s Crows and Oregon Jays (1899)
“ The Nutcracker would fly down to the rocks with rattling wings, and, when not too hungry to be critical, would proceed to investigate the breakfast with the air of a judge on the bench, for he is a dignified character. ”
Florence A. Merriam, Bird-Lore: Volume I No. 2 — Clark’s Crows and Oregon Jays (1899)
“ CLOUD CAP INN, the loghouse hotel fastened down with cables high on the north side of Mount Hood, is too near timber-line to claim a great variety of feathered guests, but Oregon Jays and Clark′s Crows or Nutcrackers are regular pensioners of the house. The usual shooting by tourists does not menace them, for the nature-loving mountaineers, who keep the Inn and act as guides to the summit, guard most loyally both birds and beasts. ”
Florence A. Merriam, Bird-Lore: Volume I No. 2 — Clark’s Crows and Oregon Jays (1899)
“ They like to tell of a noble Eagle which used to fly up the canon and circle over the glacier every day, and they recall with pleasure the snowy morning when an old Blue Grouse brought her brood to the Inn, and the birds ate the wheat that was thrown them with the confidence of chickens. ”
