. Bird lore . A WOODPECKER PATRON A Prize Offered Bird-Lore proposes to offer a series of prizes to Young Observers offourteen years or younger, who send the best accounts of the habits of certaincommon birds. The first bird will be the crow. For the best article ofbetween 700 and 800 words on the crow we will give a copy of Seton-Thompsons Lives of the Hunted, or some other book of equal manuscript should be in our hands not later than January i, 1902. J^otes^ from ^itlh mh ^tu&p Taming a Nuthatch In my daily walks through Central Park,New York city, last winter I saw two, andsometi
. Bird lore . A WOODPECKER PATRON A Prize Offered Bird-Lore proposes to offer a series of prizes to Young Observers offourteen years or younger, who send the best accounts of the habits of certaincommon birds. The first bird will be the crow. For the best article ofbetween 700 and 800 words on the crow we will give a copy of Seton-Thompsons Lives of the Hunted, or some other book of equal manuscript should be in our hands not later than January i, 1902. J^otes^ from ^itlh mh ^tu&p Taming a Nuthatch In my daily walks through Central Park,New York city, last winter I saw two, andsometimes three White-breasted Nuthatchestogether, presumably always the same indi-viduals. They first drew my attention byflying to the ground for nuts that might bethrown to them. Later I noticed that some-where in my walk I always met them, oneor both making their presence known by thefamiliar call best expressed in words by. TAMING A NUTHATCHPhotographed from nature yank-yank-yank. Finally I got the impres-sion that they must know me, perhaps be-cause of my invariable custom of havingfood with me to throw to the birds. I foundthat not only would they fly to the groundfor the nut but, what was still more clever,catch it on the wing, thereby, perhaps, turn-ing a complete somersault in the a week if I came near enough for thefemale to reach the nut from the trunk of thetree where she would cling, she would takeit from my hand and fly quickly away. Atlast she gained confidence enough to alighton my hand and after that whenever I went to the park that bird, and its mate also, forI think they share the feast, found andgreeted me. I am quite sure she enjoyedthe performance as much as I did, for she nolonger seemed in such a hurr}^ to get away,but stayed for a moment. Then she wouldfly to some tree to deposit the nut in a crev-ice of the bark either to eat immediately orto conceal it, as do the squ
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