. Familiar studies of wild birds : their haunts and habits . SWALLOW CLEANIXG THE NEST. THREE YOUKO TREE SWALLOWS, AXD AN ADULT FLYING. AFTER LEAV-ING THE NEST THEY ARE FED FOR SEVERAL WEEKS. THE PARENTS DONOT ALIGHT, BARELY PAUSING IN THEIR FLIGHT AS THEY DELIVER THEFOOD The Great Horned Owl intervals, small bits, from the carcasses athand, including the feathers, entrails and this diet the young birds grow rapidly, at-taining at an age of four weeks almost adultsize, although not yet fully feathered. Theyare soon encouraged to help themselves fromthe food available, and their legs, at
. Familiar studies of wild birds : their haunts and habits . SWALLOW CLEANIXG THE NEST. THREE YOUKO TREE SWALLOWS, AXD AN ADULT FLYING. AFTER LEAV-ING THE NEST THEY ARE FED FOR SEVERAL WEEKS. THE PARENTS DONOT ALIGHT, BARELY PAUSING IN THEIR FLIGHT AS THEY DELIVER THEFOOD The Great Horned Owl intervals, small bits, from the carcasses athand, including the feathers, entrails and this diet the young birds grow rapidly, at-taining at an age of four weeks almost adultsize, although not yet fully feathered. Theyare soon encouraged to help themselves fromthe food available, and their legs, at first veryweak, gain strength enough to support them. While one of the parents is attending tohousehold duties, the other is foraging formore game. In the dead of night, noiselessly,like a ghost it sweeps along through the trees,mercilessly picking its sleeping victims fromtheir sheltered roosts. That these owls are savage birds may belearned by experience. With a wing spreadof between four and five feet, large and power-ful, dauntless in courage, they prove danger-ous antagonists
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