. Homing with the birds; the history of a lifetime of personal experience with the birds. Birds. 358 HOMING WITH THE BIRDS chicken park only a few yards away, where they daily both see and hear our chickens. The hen-. Wren carrying body of dragon fly, stripped of its wings house windows stand open all summer. The great horned owls banish sleep for us many a summer night, hunting through the woods and thickets around the Cabin. They sometimes alight on the roof to tear up screaming groundhogs and other prey that look the size of an average cat, but they never yet have disturbed our chickens. Th
. Homing with the birds; the history of a lifetime of personal experience with the birds. Birds. 358 HOMING WITH THE BIRDS chicken park only a few yards away, where they daily both see and hear our chickens. The hen-. Wren carrying body of dragon fly, stripped of its wings house windows stand open all summer. The great horned owls banish sleep for us many a summer night, hunting through the woods and thickets around the Cabin. They sometimes alight on the roof to tear up screaming groundhogs and other prey that look the size of an average cat, but they never yet have disturbed our chickens. The martins and swallows have the air for their province. On tireless wings, with open mouths, they sieve the air, taking millions of tiny gnats, mosquitoes, and flies, that would make life alto- gether unbearable for us were we compelled to. 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 Stratton-Porter, Gene, 1863-1924. Garden City, Doubleday, Page & Company
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