. Our winter birds, how to know and how to attract them . n heavier clothing,build a fire In the furnace, put up*storm doors and prepare for thebiting cold of winter. The Thrushes, Warblers, VIreos, Flycatchers andother Summer Resident birds have all gone towarmer climes; even some of those we class as Per-manent Residents have retreated further south orsought the shelter of protected lowlands, but theRuffed Grouse asks no mercy of the weather nor anybetter home in winter than his woodland domain hasfurnished him in summer. The slender toes that then so daintily trod themoss and fallen leaves
. Our winter birds, how to know and how to attract them . n heavier clothing,build a fire In the furnace, put up*storm doors and prepare for thebiting cold of winter. The Thrushes, Warblers, VIreos, Flycatchers andother Summer Resident birds have all gone towarmer climes; even some of those we class as Per-manent Residents have retreated further south orsought the shelter of protected lowlands, but theRuffed Grouse asks no mercy of the weather nor anybetter home in winter than his woodland domain hasfurnished him in summer. The slender toes that then so daintily trod themoss and fallen leaves are now bordered withcomb-like fringes that, like snowshoes, support himon the soft white carpet of the earth, and leave be- 154 FOREST BIRDS i55 hind their record of his wanderings. When thedeepening snows cover the seeds and berries, he goesto the upper story of his woodland dwelling andchanges his diet to buds and catkins. If the nightis too bleak to sleep in the open, he flies headlonginto a snowbank and finds a warm bed beneath thisstrange
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