. How to have bird neighbors . A YOUNG GOLDFINCH ALIGHTED ON THE CLOTHESLINE. THIS MARTIN SCOUT BROUGHT A LADY WITH HIM IX THE MARTINS AIRCASTLE The purple martins like a house with many rooms,so they can live together in a large company. Sincethe martins belong to the swallow family, to callthem purple swallows would, it seems to me, be moreinforming. My friend who had sent me the wren apartment 78 THE MARTINS AIRCASTLE 79 house was so pleased with its success that he sentme also a martin house. It is four stories highand has twenty-six rooms. Around each story areporches, some of them severa
. How to have bird neighbors . A YOUNG GOLDFINCH ALIGHTED ON THE CLOTHESLINE. THIS MARTIN SCOUT BROUGHT A LADY WITH HIM IX THE MARTINS AIRCASTLE The purple martins like a house with many rooms,so they can live together in a large company. Sincethe martins belong to the swallow family, to callthem purple swallows would, it seems to me, be moreinforming. My friend who had sent me the wren apartment 78 THE MARTINS AIRCASTLE 79 house was so pleased with its success that he sentme also a martin house. It is four stories highand has twenty-six rooms. Around each story areporches, some of them several inches wide. It pleases birds to have their houses look, beforethey occupy them, as if they had been out in allsorts of weather. So, for several weeks before thismartin house was set up, it lay out in the yard tobe rained and snowed on. One cold March day a purple bird came in at mywindow. He perched on picture frames, twittered alittle, and went out again. According to the birdbooks, my little visitor was a purple martin. Maybehe had seen the martin house on the lawn, a
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