. Bird lore . spring to its baleful glare; she may have been reflective or lazy; at all eventsshe delayed her departure. With an eye cast occasionally skyward, or benev-olently fixed on her fledglings, she whiled away the time. It was during theselapses that the lids of the cameras inner eye were silently opened, and, on amovement on her part, as silently closed. In the meantime, the more industrious male was making three food tripsto her one. The fare which he provided was composed entirely of small greencaterpillars, cut up into half-lengths. The only peculiarity which distinguishedthese Bla
. Bird lore . spring to its baleful glare; she may have been reflective or lazy; at all eventsshe delayed her departure. With an eye cast occasionally skyward, or benev-olently fixed on her fledglings, she whiled away the time. It was during theselapses that the lids of the cameras inner eye were silently opened, and, on amovement on her part, as silently closed. In the meantime, the more industrious male was making three food tripsto her one. The fare which he provided was composed entirely of small greencaterpillars, cut up into half-lengths. The only peculiarity which distinguishedthese Black and White Warblers from others of their kind, aside from the faith-ful simulation of a crippled wing, was the habit before mentioned of flyingdirectly to the nest tree and sliding down it, like inverted firemen hurrying toa blaze. A Red-shouldered Hawk nested in a great pine tree whose shadow fell closeto my tents edge, but this freebooter hunted far from home, and the tenantsof the chestnut tree were ^oteg tram JFieltr anti ^tutip Two Interesting Observations The results of two observations whichI have had the opportunity to makerecently of incidents connected with thelives of some Robins and Blue Jays haveinterested me so intensely that I thinkthey might also appeal to some of thereaders of Bird-Lore. The first of these observations resultedin a discovery, new to me at least, regard-ing the psychology of the breeding the summer a pair of Robinsbuilt their nest upon the ledge of mywindow, close up against the from the beginning they mani-fested not the slightest concern about mypresence. Either they recognized the factthat I was friendly, or else the fact thatthe glass was a sufficient protection. ThusI sat within touching distance of themother bird, except for the glass, andwatched the familiar operation of nest-building. Three eggs were laid on successive days,followed by a two-day interval, and thena fourth egg. Soon the first three hatche
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