. The Wilson bulletin . oung justhatched. All of these nests \\ere placed on slightly higherground than the jn-eceding ones. All were very flimsy andreseml)led the nest of the Grosbeak more than the usual Red-wing tvpe. One was placed in a willow about six feet from Notes on the Red-Winged Blackbird 295 the ground and contained twpair after many trials succel>rood. The nest was closesand pump on the river andthem in a constant state ofin a small elm and the fourcessfully reared. The thirdyoung which disappeared the o nestlings and two eggs. Thiseded in raising all four of theirto a wagon tr
. The Wilson bulletin . oung justhatched. All of these nests \\ere placed on slightly higherground than the jn-eceding ones. All were very flimsy andreseml)led the nest of the Grosbeak more than the usual Red-wing tvpe. One was placed in a willow about six feet from Notes on the Red-Winged Blackbird 295 the ground and contained twpair after many trials succel>rood. The nest was closesand pump on the river andthem in a constant state ofin a small elm and the fourcessfully reared. The thirdyoung which disappeared the o nestlings and two eggs. Thiseded in raising all four of theirto a wagon track leading to athe passing of the wagons keptalarm. The second was placednestlings it contained were suc-, in a willow, held one nakednext dav. The fourth, contain-. Approacbing with Food. ing three nestlings, was chosen for special study. All threenestlings failed to reach the fledgling stage. The fifth pairplaced their nest in a dense tangle of willows and vines, thick-ly grown with nettles (Urtica spf). The growth was sodense that, although I worked my way through the thicketseveral times, I did not find the nest. These five pairs ofRed-wings thus built ten nests and from the nine which werefound only eight young were finally brought to a fledglingstate. This seems to be an unusually low percentage of in-crease, at least in my experience. 296 The Wilson Bulletin—Xo. 91 On the same date (June 2.)) 1 found a Rose-breasted Gros-beaks nest and w bile watching it our attention was drawn toRed-wing- nest number four and we erected a bHnd with theidea of securing some photographs of the parents. Whileengaged in this we became so interested in the blackbirdsthat we spent some time watching them. My wife and I didall of the work. The nest was built in
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