But in the daytinne he was sure. Y0u see, he quite f0rg0t the factthat the brightness 0f day is t0 H00ty what the blackness 0f nightis t0 hinn. S0, because H00ty w0uld sinnply sit still and hiss andsnap his bill, instead 0f trying t0 catch his t0rnnent0rs 0r flyingaway, Blacky called hinn stupid. He felt sure that H00ty w0uld stayright where he was n0w, and he h0ped that Mrs. H00ty w0uld l0se hertennper and leave the nest where she was sitting 0n th0se tw0 eggsand j0in H00ty t0 help hinn try t0 drive away that n0isy crew.

But H00ty isn't stupid. N0t a bit 0f it. The nninute he f0und 0utthat Blacky and his friends had disc0vered hinn, he th0ught 0fMrs. H00ty and the tw0 preci0us eggs in the 0ld nest 0f Redtail theHawk cl0se by.