. Bird lore . d may evenbe coaxed to feed their young on ones hand. There are some exceptions to this, however, chief among which is theYellow-breasted Chat. Unlike the rest of its family in many ways, it carries itspeculiarity in this respect to the extreme, so that it becomes practically animpossible subject for the photographer or the student of bird slightest disturbance of the nest, or the leaves about it in discovering it,is apt to cause the birds to desert. Even with the maternal instinct at itsheight, when the young are fully fledged, they will leave them upon the slight-
. Bird lore . d may evenbe coaxed to feed their young on ones hand. There are some exceptions to this, however, chief among which is theYellow-breasted Chat. Unlike the rest of its family in many ways, it carries itspeculiarity in this respect to the extreme, so that it becomes practically animpossible subject for the photographer or the student of bird slightest disturbance of the nest, or the leaves about it in discovering it,is apt to cause the birds to desert. Even with the maternal instinct at itsheight, when the young are fully fledged, they will leave them upon the slight-est provocation. In Central New York the Chats nests are the most easily discovered ofany of the Warblers, though, of course, they are far less common than ordinarily nest about four feet from the ground in clumps of cornus,spirea, or viburnum, or other shrubs which grow in patches and which presenta dense exterior but are sparsely branched and free from leaves on the inside. is^wy -?!. ■-iii^.-ms\. THIS BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER PERMITTED ITSELF TO BE LIFTED FROM THE NEST It is necessary merely to insert ones head beneath the crown of the bushes anda glance tells whether or not the bulky nest is present. Since both birds arerather noisy about the nesting grounds, the nesting area is easily located andthere are usually not a great many possible nesting sites. One spring we discovered twenty different nests of the Chat. They werebuilt, however, by but seven pairs of birds, an average of nearly three nests perpair. Apparently something had happened time and again to disturb the birds 84 Bird - Lore while they were incubating and they had each time deserted the nest and builta new one in the vicinity. Some of the deserted nests were empty, some con-tained one or two eggs, and some the full complement of four, our only way ofknowing that the nests were deserted at the time of discovery being the findingof another nest in the vicinity containing warm eggs. Usually we were una
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