. The home life of wild birds; a new method of the study and photography of birds . Fig. 89. Female Robin brooding : a characteristic attitude when alert, or listening to any unusual sound. the nest, bend far down and deliver the insects into the mouth of the brooding hen, whowould promptly hop up and give every morsel to the young. This little warbler would sometimes sit well down in the nest, and erect some of herfeathers and apparently inflate the throat so that the birds head appeared as if swollento twice its natural size. She made the most comical picture, however, when on a hotday she s
. The home life of wild birds; a new method of the study and photography of birds . Fig. 89. Female Robin brooding : a characteristic attitude when alert, or listening to any unusual sound. the nest, bend far down and deliver the insects into the mouth of the brooding hen, whowould promptly hop up and give every morsel to the young. This little warbler would sometimes sit well down in the nest, and erect some of herfeathers and apparently inflate the throat so that the birds head appeared as if swollento twice its natural size. She made the most comical picture, however, when on a hotday she stood or sat over the young, with every feather erect, striving to keep them cooland to be comfortable herself meanwhile. The female Kingbird broods constantly when the heat is severe, and at the approach 98 Wild Fig. 90. Female Redwing Blackbird placing food in the throat ofa nestling.
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