. Bird-lore . lower station and startedanother about fifty feet up the hill. The next morning they returned to theaccustomed place, but there was no food for them. We thought they surelywould scout around and find the new station; but not so, they simply desertedus. Thoroughly dismayed by our experiment, we quickly replaced the food atthe lower station and were rewarded by having them back again the nextmorning. We now scattered seed all the way up the hill, making small pilesat intervals of about fifty feet. This afforded a glorious time for the Spar-rows, and they rejoiced at the tops of the
. Bird-lore . lower station and startedanother about fifty feet up the hill. The next morning they returned to theaccustomed place, but there was no food for them. We thought they surelywould scout around and find the new station; but not so, they simply desertedus. Thoroughly dismayed by our experiment, we quickly replaced the food atthe lower station and were rewarded by having them back again the nextmorning. We now scattered seed all the way up the hill, making small pilesat intervals of about fifty feet. This afforded a glorious time for the Spar-rows, and they rejoiced at the tops of their shrill voices. We feared lest theywould devour all the seed before the Grosbeaks could find the upper stations,but it worked another way. The Grosbeaks came to the lower station wherethere was but little seed, heard the Sparrows at the one above, and quicklyjoined them. From that they moved up to the next, and so on until, almostbefore we realized it, they were at the uppermost station, not twenty-five feet. UNTIL THE FIRST OF APRIL THEY FREQUENTLY FED TOGETHER ON THE LOG from the house. Here was all the food they could eat, and they were neverallowed to go hungry during the rest of their stay. From that time on wecould watch them with the greatest facility, for they often perched in a mapletree within fifteen feet of the porch. Between the first and the middle of April, the Juncos and Tree Sparrowsleft the feeding-station and the company of the Grosbeaks for their more 434 Bird-Lore northern homes, and the Robins and Song Sparrows filled the vacant placesOn the twenty-sixth of March, a lonely Cardinal, the first of his kind to visitIthaca, wandered through the thicket. He came back many other days atintervals, and for a long time our highest ambition was to secure a photographof the Grosbeaks and Cardinal together, and thus unite on one film oppositecorners of the continent. Weeks passed before the opportunity came, withthe Cardinal on the log and the Grosbeaks in the branc
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