. Bird lore . THE BIRDS POOL—AUGUST (184) Birds and Seasons in My Garden 185 pensed with, in winter he becomes a vital part of the landscape. Add half adozen Jays to a snowy landscape, sharpened by the clean, black outline ofbare trees with blue sky above, and you seem to have the animate revelationof the whole. At this season, the Jays, generally so furtive, become confidentand almost friendly, thanks to their ration of dog-biscuit broken into bits nobigger than acorns. Why, we said to ourselves, might not a continuanceof the supply act as a bribe against egg-hunting? All this spring and summ
. Bird lore . THE BIRDS POOL—AUGUST (184) Birds and Seasons in My Garden 185 pensed with, in winter he becomes a vital part of the landscape. Add half adozen Jays to a snowy landscape, sharpened by the clean, black outline ofbare trees with blue sky above, and you seem to have the animate revelationof the whole. At this season, the Jays, generally so furtive, become confidentand almost friendly, thanks to their ration of dog-biscuit broken into bits nobigger than acorns. Why, we said to ourselves, might not a continuanceof the supply act as a bribe against egg-hunting? All this spring and summer we have kept this food on the winter shelf, andon another, standing on a shady wall, with its long legs protected by invertedtin pans, granary fashion, from the thefts of field-rats. It is rash to assume toomuch by mere inference, but this one thing I know, two families of Jays havebeen reared in the garden spruces, while two other pairs have made visitsdaily to the food-shelves, and but once this season
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