. Bird lore . f these worms did they give the young. It was evident that the young would soon leave the nest for they had begun to raise up in the nest and fluttertheir wings. As this had been suchan unusual experience with bird-life for me, I wanted some per-manent record of it. The enclosedpictures are the result. I tookthem while the birds were beingfed, standing not more than fourfeet from the nest and using theKodak bulb. With all the care exercised andthe young almost grown, I was notprivileged to see them fly, for onthe evening of the same day thepictures were taken, a black shadowstole
. Bird lore . f these worms did they give the young. It was evident that the young would soon leave the nest for they had begun to raise up in the nest and fluttertheir wings. As this had been suchan unusual experience with bird-life for me, I wanted some per-manent record of it. The enclosedpictures are the result. I tookthem while the birds were beingfed, standing not more than fourfeet from the nest and using theKodak bulb. With all the care exercised andthe young almost grown, I was notprivileged to see them fly, for onthe evening of the same day thepictures were taken, a black shadowstole across the lawn, unseen in thedusk of evening, a commotionarose at the nest in which MotherRobin began a frightened calling,to be joined at once by Cock knew a marauder was at as possible I was at thenest, but in the space of one min-ute the nest had been emptied andI found two live Robins on theground, one the weakling, andthree dead ones; the cat had takenLater I saw to it that she paid. A BUSY ROBIN another young one for her evening tidbitthe penalty. For two nights I kept in my room the young birds that escaped the raider,and put them out in their nest in the morning. It was a pitiful call MotherRobin gave as she perched on the top of her pine tree home the morning afterthe cat raided her nest. She begun calling where, where as soon as it broke day. The weakling of the brood had survived up to this time but now died,leaving but one fledgling out of seven hatched; the lone one to fly away. The Mating Antics of the Pacific Nighthawk By MABEL A. STANFORD With Photographs by Wright M. Pierce THE mating antics of the Pacific Nighthawk are unusual and bird, which Hves in British Columbia, Alberta, Washington, andmany western states, migrates from Colorado to Nicaragua and is foundin southern California from May to August. It has one or two unusual tricksto lure the intruder from its marbled eggs and fuzzy, camouflaged young. The scientific n
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