. Familiar studies of wild birds : their haunts and habits . KINGBIRD READY TO LEAVE. EVIDENCE OF THEIR DOWNY STAGE REMAINS S03IE TIME AFTER THEYOUNG KINGBIRDS ARE WELt FEATHERED Notes from the Indiana Sand Dunes in a few days meadow larks were heard, thenkilldeer, and finally one morning I was awak-ened by the familiar chirps of robins. Once,when I was returning to camp with firewood,I surprised a gray fox trotting directly towardme. He disappeared fleetly over the knoll hehad just passed, but a party of crows, whichtook the matter up, told me very plainly thathe was making a detour along the
. Familiar studies of wild birds : their haunts and habits . KINGBIRD READY TO LEAVE. EVIDENCE OF THEIR DOWNY STAGE REMAINS S03IE TIME AFTER THEYOUNG KINGBIRDS ARE WELt FEATHERED Notes from the Indiana Sand Dunes in a few days meadow larks were heard, thenkilldeer, and finally one morning I was awak-ened by the familiar chirps of robins. Once,when I was returning to camp with firewood,I surprised a gray fox trotting directly towardme. He disappeared fleetly over the knoll hehad just passed, but a party of crows, whichtook the matter up, told me very plainly thathe was making a detour along the side of thenext large dune, and probably observing methe while. It was maple sugar time, for the sapsuckershad been at work on every hand. Small holesa quarter of an inch in diameter and of aboutequal depth were drilled in rings encircling thetrees or scattered irregularly from the rootsupward. Presently I discovered the sap-bird going the rounds of his grove, gatheringthe sap and also the insects which had a few weeks a bright vermillion moldformed where the sap
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