. Western birds . PHAINOIEILA OR SILKY CALIFOUNIA JAY AT BIKD TABLE WESTERN BIRDS Kingbird allowing fourteen hours for the birds days, the young-sters were fed 1,092 insects daily. Multiply this amountby 21, the days that the nestling spent in the nest, andalso by five days as an estimate of the time the old birdsfed after the young left the nest, and you will have some-thing over 28,000 insects taken from the neighborhoodwhere these birds nested. Is it not worth while to culti-vate the acquaintance of such flycatchers from an eco-nomic standpoint, if no other? It has been said by
. Western birds . PHAINOIEILA OR SILKY CALIFOUNIA JAY AT BIKD TABLE WESTERN BIRDS Kingbird allowing fourteen hours for the birds days, the young-sters were fed 1,092 insects daily. Multiply this amountby 21, the days that the nestling spent in the nest, andalso by five days as an estimate of the time the old birdsfed after the young left the nest, and you will have some-thing over 28,000 insects taken from the neighborhoodwhere these birds nested. Is it not worth while to culti-vate the acquaintance of such flycatchers from an eco-nomic standpoint, if no other? It has been said by some Naturalists that once theyoung leave the nest they never return. I believe thisis true in most cases, but that there are exceptions. Iknow by observation. Late one afternoon when theyoung Kingbirds were about three weeks old, I saw oneof them resting on the wire above the nest. Later, how-ever, he had returned to the nest and was cuddled downamong his brothers and sisters. The next morning, July10th, about ten oclock, one young bird flew fro
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