. Bird lore . HIDING IN A CORNER WITH HISEYES ALMOST CLOSED 90 Bird - Lore I refrained from feeding him for two days, but on June i, he ate a chipmunk,and that night a red squirrel. On June 2, I found him perched on the tool-house, and on the third he was in a large maple near-by, after which he wentback to the woods apparently as well as ever. He did not seem to be afraidof me after the first day or two of our acquaintance, but he never let me seehim eat, although my frequent visits proved to me that he ate as often in thedaytime as at night. A few days later, I found a dead young Barred Owl
. Bird lore . HIDING IN A CORNER WITH HISEYES ALMOST CLOSED 90 Bird - Lore I refrained from feeding him for two days, but on June i, he ate a chipmunk,and that night a red squirrel. On June 2, I found him perched on the tool-house, and on the third he was in a large maple near-by, after which he wentback to the woods apparently as well as ever. He did not seem to be afraidof me after the first day or two of our acquaintance, but he never let me seehim eat, although my frequent visits proved to me that he ate as often in thedaytime as at night. A few days later, I found a dead young Barred Owl near the same yard,but could find no clew to the cause of its death. The Barred Owds are still with us, though I see them less often than I usedto, and[the Screech Owls are beginning to be heard again in their old CROW ATTACKING A STUFFED GREAT HORNED OWL Photographed by Henry R. Carey, at Portsmouth, N. H., July 4, 1909 A Bluebird Study By L. CLAUDE, Baraboo. Wis. ON May 26, two Bluebirds were caroling gaily on the vine stakes nearthe house, and I suspected that they had a nest in the plum thicketclose by. A search revealed the nest in one of the old stubs, but stillempty. So I concluded that they had raised their first brood and were pre-paring for the second. Three days afterward, there were three eggs in the nest, and the femalewas sitting. From then on, during all the incubating period, the Bluebirdswere very quiet, their manner in this respect being quite different from whatit had been the day I first noticed them. The first time I saw the young Bluebirds after they were hatched, theyseemed to be suftering from the heat, though there was a crack at the back ofthe nest which should have given ventilation. The old birds made some objec-tion to my examining their nest, and the male circled o
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