. Nature study and life. Nature study. 334 NATURE STUDY AND LIFE Alas, dear friend, that, all my days. Hast poured from that syringa thicket The quaintly discontinuous lays To which I hold a season-ticket, A season-ticket cheaply bought With a dessert of pilfered berries, And who so oft my soul hast caught With morn and evening voluntaries. Lowell, Nighthtgale iji the Study. eight inches high, and houses of more than one compart- ment may be made by cutting the boards in multiples of these numbers. Old weathered boards should be used, or, if painted, they should be made the color of an old tre
. Nature study and life. Nature study. 334 NATURE STUDY AND LIFE Alas, dear friend, that, all my days. Hast poured from that syringa thicket The quaintly discontinuous lays To which I hold a season-ticket, A season-ticket cheaply bought With a dessert of pilfered berries, And who so oft my soul hast caught With morn and evening voluntaries. Lowell, Nighthtgale iji the Study. eight inches high, and houses of more than one compart- ment may be made by cutting the boards in multiples of these numbers. Old weathered boards should be used, or, if painted, they should be made the color of an old tree trunk. A single open- ing near the top should be made, two inches in diameter for most birds ; although, for wrens and chickadees, one inch is sufficient and will serve to keep out English sparrows, and for wrens the house should be set in a shady place. Besides being a cheery songster and a most sprightly and fascinating fellow, the wren depends for practically his whole food supply upon the insects of our grounds and gardens. While wrens have become scarce of late years about our towns and cities, driven out probably by English sparrows, a fevir of the children in Worcester have reported them as occupying their bird houses. No doubt, we may soon have them common again if we supply sparrow-proof homes and get rid of the English sparrows. Probably no bird possesses a higher economic value than the chickadee. All summer he feeds on insects and all winter on the eggs which they lay on the twigs and bark and around the buds of trees. Professor Forbush reports finding 5500 eggs of plant lice in the crop of a chickadee, this number representing what the bird had gathered for a single breakfast. When heavy snow and. Fig. 131. Chickadee. 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 Hodge, Clifton Fremont, 1859
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