. The home life of wild birds; a new method of the study and photography of birds. Birds; Photography of birds. The Robin at Arm's 49 lington, Vermont, on March 30th. A few Bluebirds are usually reported on the same day. In 1900, Robins were heard or seen in different parts of Cleveland on the nintli of March, a mild, bright day, while but a week before the country was in the grip of one of the worst ice-storms ever known in this region. Every exposed object was incased in solid ice for days and the birds fasted or starved. In the choice of a nesting site, the Robin, as we have seen,
. The home life of wild birds; a new method of the study and photography of birds. Birds; Photography of birds. The Robin at Arm's 49 lington, Vermont, on March 30th. A few Bluebirds are usually reported on the same day. In 1900, Robins were heard or seen in different parts of Cleveland on the nintli of March, a mild, bright day, while but a week before the country was in the grip of one of the worst ice-storms ever known in this region. Every exposed object was incased in solid ice for days and the birds fasted or starved. In the choice of a nesting site, the Robin, as we have seen, obeys no law. The apple tree, which from its mode of branching yields wide, open crotches and safe. Fig- 33- Female Robin in act of cleaning the nest. horizontal supports, is generally chosen, but they also resort to the leafy elm, the ever- green, the dense and remote woods, or like the Phoebe, accept the hospitality of barn, porch, or shed. In the course of one afternoon in Sanbornton, New Hampshire, I once found six nests all under cover. One was to a beam inside an old barn, alread)' occupied by Swallows, the onl_v means of entrance and egress being cracks between the boards of the gable above the haymow. The Swallows shot with unerring aim through these cracks, but one of their full-fledged young, which lay dead on the ha}-, had appar- ently dashed its brains out in attempting this feat. In a dilapidated shed of another barn, then abandoned, were three nests, two of which set in line and close together, were doubtless the work of the same builders. Where the nest has already begun to crumble into ruins by the time the young fly,. 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 Herrick, Francis Hobart, 1858-1940. New York, London, G. P. Putnam's Sons
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