. Bird-lore . three seasons. Two different timesI have found the Red-winged Blackbirdsbusily engaged in tearing open the cocoonsof the tent caterpillars and eating the chrys-alis. It is interesting to note that at no othertime do the Redwings leave the swamp onthe lake shore nearby to visit our gardens. Notes from Field and Study 247 They seem to take no interest in the cater-pillars in the tents but only after they havespun their cocoons.—M. I. Compton, Seallle,Wash. Goldfinches Nest in Thistles On August 8, 1915, while walking in apasture containing many large thistles, Inoticed a Goldfinch
. Bird-lore . three seasons. Two different timesI have found the Red-winged Blackbirdsbusily engaged in tearing open the cocoonsof the tent caterpillars and eating the chrys-alis. It is interesting to note that at no othertime do the Redwings leave the swamp onthe lake shore nearby to visit our gardens. Notes from Field and Study 247 They seem to take no interest in the cater-pillars in the tents but only after they havespun their cocoons.—M. I. Compton, Seallle,Wash. Goldfinches Nest in Thistles On August 8, 1915, while walking in apasture containing many large thistles, Inoticed a Goldfinch fly into one of thesethistles, and later found it was building a A Song Sparrow Family Sometimes in our quests for birds of gayerplumes and rarer species, we pass by themore apparently familiar and the more di-rectly useful ones. It was on one of thesequests that the author of this article wasstopped by a small boy, who knew of thelocation of a birds nest from which themother bird walked as if she were A SONG SPARROW FAMILY nest in it. On August 22, there were five eggsin this nest and the bird was sitting. On thisday I found three more nests in this samepasture, all in thistles; one nest had 6 eggs,one had 4, and one had 2. On September 5,all four nests had young birds. We had been having some very severerainstorms just previous to this last date,and one of the thistles had fallen over, butthe birds were still in the nest, notwithstand-ing the fact that the nest was tipped verymuch. On September 12, all but two of thenests were empty and I discovered youngbirds nearby which were able to fly and werebeing fed by the old birds. In 1916, I expected to find them againnesting in thistles and found at least six nestsof these birds in this same pasture, but theywere all in trees.—Clarence H. Bush,PeKalb, Ills, Accordingly, a trip was made to the nest,and, true to nature, the bird left the nestvery cautiously and with both wings closeto the ground. The nest proved to be tha
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