. Bird lore . ONE REDPOLL IN THE HAND AND NINE INTHE BOX BELOW 12 Bird - Lore One morning I heard an unfamiliar song and discovered a flock of Linnetson an arborvitae near the porch singing a delightful little song something like this: Sweet, sweet, sweet,Such a dee-ahr, such a dear,Sweet, sweet. The tone was shrill and sweet quite like that of the Yellow Warbler. Theircall note was a questioning REDPOLLS WAITING FOR LUNCHEONFrom a painting by^L. A. Lacey One day when they were feeding in and about my hand, a sudden noisestartled the flock and all flew off excepting the one in my ha
. Bird lore . ONE REDPOLL IN THE HAND AND NINE INTHE BOX BELOW 12 Bird - Lore One morning I heard an unfamiliar song and discovered a flock of Linnetson an arborvitae near the porch singing a delightful little song something like this: Sweet, sweet, sweet,Such a dee-ahr, such a dear,Sweet, sweet. The tone was shrill and sweet quite like that of the Yellow Warbler. Theircall note was a questioning REDPOLLS WAITING FOR LUNCHEONFrom a painting by^L. A. Lacey One day when they were feeding in and about my hand, a sudden noisestartled the flock and all flew off excepting the one in my hand. He stayed,eating with perfect content as though he knew he was protected. The otherssoon came fluttering back seeing nothing to fear. Alarms were very frequentlygiven during the days they were with us but the bird standing in my hand almostinvariably stayed while all the others flew to the surrounding trees to reconnoiter. The flock steadily increased. They evidently had some method of communi-cating with other scattered flocks, passing the news along concerning the abund-ance of food they had found. About a week after the arrival of the first eightthere was a snowfall of several inches, and the following morning we countedthirty-five of them. As they were very hungry and the out-of-doors lunch-tablewas uncomfortably crowded, we spread millet over a table in the room (to thewindow of which they
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