. Baby birds at home . other small bird. The owner ofthe nest either does not notice, or does notmind, the addition to her clutch, and keepsit warm and dry along with her own eggs. In due season the baby Cuckoo is hatched,and speedily reveals a character as blackas the ugly skin that covers its ungainlybody. Although it cannot see, it can feel,and does not rest until it has succeeded ingetting the other chicks, or eggs, in the neston to its back, and by a mighty effort thrownthem out of their rightful home. A baby Cuckoo never appears to beeither satisfied or grateful. Its fosterparents may br
. Baby birds at home . other small bird. The owner ofthe nest either does not notice, or does notmind, the addition to her clutch, and keepsit warm and dry along with her own eggs. In due season the baby Cuckoo is hatched,and speedily reveals a character as blackas the ugly skin that covers its ungainlybody. Although it cannot see, it can feel,and does not rest until it has succeeded ingetting the other chicks, or eggs, in the neston to its back, and by a mighty effort thrownthem out of their rightful home. A baby Cuckoo never appears to beeither satisfied or grateful. Its fosterparents may bring caterpillars along asfast as ever they can find them, but thechicks great ugly mouth is for ever heldwidely open in request of more. It is a stupid chick, for when it hasfledged and is waiting for food it does notstoop to meet its wee foster mother, butrears its head high in the air, quite out ofreach of any pipit or wagtail. The littlebird is therefore obliged to jump on its back,and drop the food down its The Yellow Hammer YOU are not at all likely to mistake thisvery familiar British bird for anyother, unless it be, perhaps, its much rarerand shyer relative, the cirl bunting. Allyou have to remember is that the malehas no black on his yellow head, and thefemale is not marked with yellowish brownunder her chin. The Yellow Hammer is common all overthe country. The male loves to sit on the topof a hedge or bush and sing by the hourtogether. His song is not of first-classorder as bird-music goes. It consists oftwo oft-repeated notes, and has been aptlylikened to the words, A little bit of breadand no cheese/ Many people consider ita dreary affair, but it has the merit ofbeing uttered during hot July days whenother feathered vocalists are silent. The nest is built in a bramble, thorn, orother bush. Sometimes it is eight or ten 5 6 Baby Birds at Home feet above the ground, and at others rightdown upon it. The one shown in ourillustration was made in the shelter of atu
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