. Bird lore . The Brown Creeper BY EARLE STAFFORD (Aged 14 years) Cloaked in brown is he, That mite on yonder tree— His cheerful cry, as he climbs on high. Comes from the pines to me. Not once in his busy course stops he. To talk with Nuthatch or Chickadee, But continues his searching midst wind and snow, Till the sharp cold days of winter go; Then back to the northland—back to his home— To the range of the bears, where the caribou roam; And there with his mate—the one he loves best— JBehind some strip of bark theyll build them a nest. Hell help feed the young birds and keep away thieves. Till
. Bird lore . The Brown Creeper BY EARLE STAFFORD (Aged 14 years) Cloaked in brown is he, That mite on yonder tree— His cheerful cry, as he climbs on high. Comes from the pines to me. Not once in his busy course stops he. To talk with Nuthatch or Chickadee, But continues his searching midst wind and snow, Till the sharp cold days of winter go; Then back to the northland—back to his home— To the range of the bears, where the caribou roam; And there with his mate—the one he loves best— JBehind some strip of bark theyll build them a nest. Hell help feed the young birds and keep away thieves. Till the rich gold of fall comes and warm summer leaves. (197). A PHCEBES NESTS AND YOUNG jBtote^ from JTielti anti ^tutip A Phcebe With Three Nests In Bird-Lore Vol. Ill, pp. 85-87, JohnBurroughs has contributed an article en-titled A Bewildered Phoebe, in which heshows that this bird evidently became con-fused in the selection of a nesting site in anenvironment to which it was likely unac-customed. As Mr. Burroughs saw fit tointerfere with the birds labor in completingthe five nests, the foundations of which shehad begun, the reader can only conjectureas to what the results might have been inthis case had she been left undisturbed. I,fortunately, had the opportunity of observ-ing the Phoebe nest under conditions simi-lar to those described by Mr. Burroughs;and, as the birds were left to carry on theirwork, I thought the results might prove in-teresting in connection with those given byhim. The site selected for nest-building wasupon a horizontal beam over the entranceto a wood-shed. Upon this beam werethree pieces of studding, at distances of fi
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