. Nestlings of forest and marsh, by Irene Grosvenor Wheelock; . and search revealed theother two sitting on separate twigs, solemnas young owls, with no attempt to let me pick them up, and posed beau-tifully for their portraits. After that one ofthem sat in unwinking silence on the branchwhere we placed him for six long hours,while his fond papa from time to timebrought him flies, small green worms, andspiders. The other two were more restless,and disappeared with their mother amongthe dense foliage. That night at least threeof the family, including the father, slept in a256 YELLOW
. Nestlings of forest and marsh, by Irene Grosvenor Wheelock; . and search revealed theother two sitting on separate twigs, solemnas young owls, with no attempt to let me pick them up, and posed beau-tifully for their portraits. After that one ofthem sat in unwinking silence on the branchwhere we placed him for six long hours,while his fond papa from time to timebrought him flies, small green worms, andspiders. The other two were more restless,and disappeared with their mother amongthe dense foliage. That night at least threeof the family, including the father, slept in a256 YELLOW WARBLER hazel-bush close by the old blackberry vines,until a vigorous shaking of the branchesdisturbed them. It is really almost as profitable to prowlthrough the clearings by moonlight as in thedaytime, if one is sufficiently familiar withbirds to recognize species by their size, form,and flight; for up from the ferns, out of thebushes, and sometimes from the top of fence-posts, one may flush these little sleepers anddiscover where they spend their ^7 257 PRINTED FOR A. C. McCLURG & CO. BYTHE UNIVERSITY PRESS, JOHN WILSON& SON (l NC), CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A. A T
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