. Bird lore. Birds; Birds; Ornithology. 290 Bird - Lore to light on her as on the branch at her side, or he steps on her back as he walks across to place material on the other side of her. Doves are peculiar birds. They do not lift their heads when they drink, but submerge their bills and suck the water up. They do not feed their young like most perching birds, but regurgitate half-digested food into their throats. A friend, looking at the parent Dove feeding her young, said, ''They are scrap- ; It looked as though they were 'scrapping' with clenched bills, but it was the regurgitati
. Bird lore. Birds; Birds; Ornithology. 290 Bird - Lore to light on her as on the branch at her side, or he steps on her back as he walks across to place material on the other side of her. Doves are peculiar birds. They do not lift their heads when they drink, but submerge their bills and suck the water up. They do not feed their young like most perching birds, but regurgitate half-digested food into their throats. A friend, looking at the parent Dove feeding her young, said, ''They are scrap- ; It looked as though they were 'scrapping' with clenched bills, but it was the regurgitation process. Although the Dove is proverbially gentle, I once saw the male drive a Blue. THE ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK AND THE BROWN THRASHER AT THE BATH Jay from the tree in which the female Dove sat on their nest, and when the Jay stopped in a nearby tree he went to the nest and took the female's place on the eggs, as much as to say, "Come and rob the nest if you ; One morning the Robin flew to the bath where the male Dove was drinking, evi- dently expecting to scare him away, but the Dove raised both wings in protest and stood his ground. Last fall a pair of Red-headed Woodpeckers began excavating in a dead box elder limb in our yard. We wondered at this, for although Downy exca- vates a winter home, the Red-head goes South for the winter. Do they begin their next year's nest the autumn before? I planned to cut off the dead limb, but my curiosity was aroused and it was allowed to remain for 'scientific' purposes. I knew that Red-heads were lazy birds, watching for insects from fence-posts, and sometimes even taking them in flight, like flycatchers, instead of industriously searching and drilling for them like well-bred Woodpeckers,. 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 National Commit
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