. How to have bird neighbors . ish tailand speckled breast, sing, *Beverly Beverly, PeterPeter, Tell it to me! Tell it to me! Comehere! Come here! and such things, then you haveheard the brown thrasher. If you will look highenough you can almost surely see him too, in thetop of a high tree. He loves to be seen as well asheard. Mrs. Brown Thrasher looked just like her had hidden her nest so well that I did not jfindit until it was empty. It was in a dense knew it was hers because she was still near. lo-it!io-it! she scolded, until I went away. One littlebaby thrasher was on a
. How to have bird neighbors . ish tailand speckled breast, sing, *Beverly Beverly, PeterPeter, Tell it to me! Tell it to me! Comehere! Come here! and such things, then you haveheard the brown thrasher. If you will look highenough you can almost surely see him too, in thetop of a high tree. He loves to be seen as well asheard. Mrs. Brown Thrasher looked just like her had hidden her nest so well that I did not jfindit until it was empty. It was in a dense knew it was hers because she was still near. lo-it!io-it! she scolded, until I went away. One littlebaby thrasher was on a branch of the thicket. Themother was guarding him. The goldfinches were very late with their house-keeping. In July they were still gathering stringsand cotton for their nesting. They are just as politeand gentle as the chickadees. Their name fits sowell that anybody who sees these yellow birds, justlike canaries with black wings and tail, ought toknow them at once. Their song usually starts with 76 HOW TO HAVE BIRD NEIGHBORS. EACH LITTLE GOLDFINCH CALLED AS LOUD AS HE COULD *Sweet sweet sweet/ and the rest is a regular canarysong. They are sometimes called wild canaries. The young goldfinches loved to sit on the edge oftheir nest as soon as they were old enough. As theysat there they chattered to each other, Ze bebe,ze bebe, and fluttered their wings a great I found their nest I was surprised that Ihadnt seen it before; it was low on a buckeye. When the young goldfinches left their nest itseemed as if they wanted to get acquainted withpeople. They came down on the lowest branches, BIRDS NOT OF A FEATHER 77 and quite near the house. One alighted on theclothesHne. Whenever Father or Mother came withfood there was the greatest fluttering of one called, Ze bebe ze bebe/ as loud as hecould, and opened wide his bill to catch what theparents tossed or squirted out to him. It was noliving, squirming thing, but a pulpy mass. The young were yellow in front, olive o
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