. Bird lore . NESTING-BOX USED BY CHICKADEEIN CEDAR JUST OUTSIDE AUTHORSLIBRARY WINDOW. My Experience with Von Berlepsch Nesting-boxes 7 the pair of Chickadees nested again in the cedar by my library window^while the Screech Owls this year raised three young in the box, type C, inwhich they roosted last year. The Golden-winged Woodpeckers seemed tolike their new houses, type C, and two pairs used them. One of them raiseda brood without difficulty, but the other had its first nest broken up by redsquirrels, and so moved to another box in which a gray squirrel had just raised. AITLL-iRLL Vvilll
. Bird lore . NESTING-BOX USED BY CHICKADEEIN CEDAR JUST OUTSIDE AUTHORSLIBRARY WINDOW. My Experience with Von Berlepsch Nesting-boxes 7 the pair of Chickadees nested again in the cedar by my library window^while the Screech Owls this year raised three young in the box, type C, inwhich they roosted last year. The Golden-winged Woodpeckers seemed tolike their new houses, type C, and two pairs used them. One of them raiseda brood without difficulty, but the other had its first nest broken up by redsquirrels, and so moved to another box in which a gray squirrel had just raised. AITLL-iRLL Vvilll M.,-. i LoLb J. ■ a litter of young, and, pulling out the lining of this nest, proceeded to raise abrood there. This year, 1911, apparently the same pairs of birds are nesting in the sameplaces, though the Bluebirds took a different box for their first brood. Flickersoccupied two boxes, and the Chickadees came back as usual; while White-bellied Nuthatches and Great-crested Flycatchers were seen about other boxes. The Screech Owls were apparently so disgusted with the disturbance wemade last year in photographing their young that they nested elsewhere. I have been, of course, very much disappointed in the above showing; andyet, after due consideration, it seems to me that many of the difficulties 8 Bird-Lore may be overcome in time, and I have this year imported more boxesfrom jabroad. In the orchard on the lawn there were six boxes, three of size A and threeof size B. Two of tliese are occui)ied, each year, by a pair of Bluebirds for theirfirst
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