. Gray lady and the birds; stories of the bird year for home and school . es, for an instant, in their endeavour to capture anunearthed mouse or insect. Arent there any bad Hawks, then? asked HttleBobby, incredulously, for to him the cry of Hawk!and the sight of the hired man with the gun came together. Yes, Bobby, plenty of them, even hereabouts; theSharp-shinned and the Chicken or Coopers Hawk, bothof them flash out of the sky and pounce cruelly on bothgame- and song-birds. And, let me tell you all something,though I do not wish to kill any birds needlessly, yetI would not let any of these H
. Gray lady and the birds; stories of the bird year for home and school . es, for an instant, in their endeavour to capture anunearthed mouse or insect. Arent there any bad Hawks, then? asked HttleBobby, incredulously, for to him the cry of Hawk!and the sight of the hired man with the gun came together. Yes, Bobby, plenty of them, even hereabouts; theSharp-shinned and the Chicken or Coopers Hawk, bothof them flash out of the sky and pounce cruelly on bothgame- and song-birds. And, let me tell you all something,though I do not wish to kill any birds needlessly, yetI would not let any of these Hawks, useful or otherwise,nest or feed near Birdland, and I should have Jacobfrighten them away with blank cartridges, because thevery sight of them terrifies the beautiful song-birds thatwe love, and that trust us and confide in our protection. The little Screech Owls may play about if they will,but neither Crows, Jays, Hawks, nor Enghsh Sparrows canever be welcome garden guests. Something to remember about Hawks and Owls. — Thefemale is always larger than the male!. SPARROW HAWK XIII TREE-TRUNK BIRDSWoodpeckers — Nuthatches and the Brown Creepers By the time November came in but few birds were tobe seen about the schoolhouse at Foxes Corners. Foruntil Gray Lady came, no one had taken an interesteither in the appearance of the schoolbuilding itself orthe ragged bit of ground upon which it stood. Nowfour sugar-maples had been transplanted from the near-bywoods, and set where they would shade the windows inthe warm days of early summer and fall and yet notinterfere with winter sunshine; and Gray Lady hadpromised that by spring there should be some benchesalong the north fence, where there was shade from thewhite birches in the wood-lot beyond. That is, she hadpromised the wood for the benches and Jacobs aid intheir planning; for the rest, the boys were to do the workthemselves, for after Thanksgiving four or five large boyswould come to school,—Tommy Todds brother Everett,
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