. Bird lore . utside in the increasing storm. In the flashes of lightning we couldsee the mother, soaked by the rain, with head bent, her feathers spread outover her little ones, keeping her place in spite of the violent gusts of morning one fat little bird, showing blue on his wings, was founddead on the ground, while the process of stuffing the remaining four wenton above just as usual. At last the nest was discovered empty, and by the cries and excitementon the lawn we traced the young birds to their perches in the trees, solici-tously guarded by their anxious parents. They were c
. Bird lore . utside in the increasing storm. In the flashes of lightning we couldsee the mother, soaked by the rain, with head bent, her feathers spread outover her little ones, keeping her place in spite of the violent gusts of morning one fat little bird, showing blue on his wings, was founddead on the ground, while the process of stuffing the remaining four wenton above just as usual. At last the nest was discovered empty, and by the cries and excitementon the lawn we traced the young birds to their perches in the trees, solici-tously guarded by their anxious parents. They were coaxed and urged intotrying short flights, and blundered about with an aimless and uncertain motion. For several days we could distinguish them by the yellow of their beaks;but soon we lost them from sight, and our Blue Jays were no longerknown amid the throng, though their memory will long live in our tradi-tions and their story be well preserved in the camera studies that were sohappily and harmlessly
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