. From Blomidon to Smoky, and other papers [microform]. Birds; Birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux. FROM BLOMIDON TO SMOKY. fixed themselves upon me. His tormentors soon flew away, and after studying me attentively for some time, the little Acadian floated off out oi" sight also. The young screech owl, whose death at his bro- ther's hands I have already mentioned, irritated the birds of the forest and meadow in the same way. I placed him, one morning, upon a birch- tree which was in use by a family of yellow- breasted woodpeckers as a sap-drinking place. The sapsuckers made a great clamor on seeing h
. From Blomidon to Smoky, and other papers [microform]. Birds; Birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux. FROM BLOMIDON TO SMOKY. fixed themselves upon me. His tormentors soon flew away, and after studying me attentively for some time, the little Acadian floated off out oi" sight also. The young screech owl, whose death at his bro- ther's hands I have already mentioned, irritated the birds of the forest and meadow in the same way. I placed him, one morning, upon a birch- tree which was in use by a family of yellow- breasted woodpeckers as a sap-drinking place. The sapsuckers made a great clamor on seeing him, and their cries called together all the birds which were within earshot. At least thirty indi- viduals came, including kingbirds, cuckoos, cat- birds, veeries, chickadees, four o^* five kinds of warblers, red-eyed vireos, song sparrows, and two himiming-birds. Having scolded for nearly ten minutes, they departed, leaving a sapsucker and a humming-bird, which soon forgot the owl and resumed their usual employment of drinking the birch-tree's sap. Several times during the summer of 1891,1 took my snowy owl out to walk. He weighs three and a half pounds, so the task of carrying him by hand upon an outstretched stick was rather a laborious one. The birds noticed him at once, and scolded as though he were of a spe- cies with which they were unpleasantly familiar, instead of one with which they were presumably. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bolles, Frank, 1856-1894. Boston; New York : Houghton Mifflin
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