. Nature study; birds . s that were in it; they were curiously scrawledand marked with black and brown, looking, as Dorothj-said as if a fly has stepped in the ink bottle and then walk-ed over them. The nest was quite large,—made of coarsegrasses woven together to form a basket willi a deep cup-slaped center. Red-winged Blackbirds do not always build in busheslike these, Dick; near my home is a marshy meadow, al-ways partly covered with water when the blackbirds buildtheir nests, but it dries up by the time their little ones ap-pear so that I can walk across and find their nests in almostevery
. Nature study; birds . s that were in it; they were curiously scrawledand marked with black and brown, looking, as Dorothj-said as if a fly has stepped in the ink bottle and then walk-ed over them. The nest was quite large,—made of coarsegrasses woven together to form a basket willi a deep cup-slaped center. Red-winged Blackbirds do not always build in busheslike these, Dick; near my home is a marshy meadow, al-ways partly covered with water when the blackbirds buildtheir nests, but it dries up by the time their little ones ap-pear so that I can walk across and find their nests in almostevery large clump of grass. As we started away from the pond, the blackbirds, oneby om-, stopped their scolding; by the time we were a hun-dred yards distant, they were all quiet. Just before we got out of hearing, one of them, perhaps ithe old fellow that first noticed us, perched on the bush |above his nest and sang the blackbird song, resembling thesyllables quong-ka-ree. Perhaps it was his *ay of sayinggood, bve to
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