. Stories about birds, with pictures to match . .T. C^y HE pleasing manner and social(lis]:)Osition of this little bird,entitle liim to particular is one of the first messengersspring. Oil, how it used to glad-my heart, as the snows of wintermelted away, to hear the first notes of thissweet songster! I used to fancy that the sameindividuals returned to my fathers orchardfrom year to year, and that they recognizedme when I welcomed them to our dwelling. The blue bird is generally regarded as abird of passage. Still, I have known pairs ofthem appear, in the latitude of Connecticut, ase
. Stories about birds, with pictures to match . .T. C^y HE pleasing manner and social(lis]:)Osition of this little bird,entitle liim to particular is one of the first messengersspring. Oil, how it used to glad-my heart, as the snows of wintermelted away, to hear the first notes of thissweet songster! I used to fancy that the sameindividuals returned to my fathers orchardfrom year to year, and that they recognizedme when I welcomed them to our dwelling. The blue bird is generally regarded as abird of passage. Still, I have known pairs ofthem appear, in the latitude of Connecticut, asearly as the middle of Februarj^, when theweather was unusually warm for that seasonof the year. Poor fellows! when they madeso early a visit, they invariably had to pay. THE BLUE BIRD. STORIES ABOUT BIRDS. 89 pretty dearly for it. They were sure to en-counter cold weather, and frequently severesnow-storms. I have almost cried, many atime, when I have thought of what the littlecreatures must suffer at such times. The favorite spot for the nest of the bluebird is a hole in some old tree. An apple treesuits him very well; and he is more generallyfound in an apple orchard, than anywhere is to be presumed that these birds do notthemselves bore the holes in ^ the tree wherethey build their nest. I am inclined to think,that those with whom I was acquainted, whenI was a little boy, appropriated the holesformerly made by the woodpecker. After thenest is built, the owners are sometimes obligedto abandon it to other birds. The little rest-less, fidgety, twittering wren, for instance,loves just such a place as the blue bird does;and I have known the sly fellow come alongjust as the blue bird family had got settled,and, watching an opportunity when the blu
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