. Useful birds and their protection. Containing brief descriptions of the more common and useful species of Massachusetts, with accounts of their food habits, and a chapter on the means of attracting and protecting birds . may be right in The distances from the ground as given here are not arbitrary. I have kncmithe Chickadee, for instance, to nest at different heiglits, from two to fifty-tivefeet from the ground. ^ Tliis size of box is probably none too large for the Screech Owl, as three orfour young birds .soon render the edges of the nest very filthy, and on this ac-count probably require
. Useful birds and their protection. Containing brief descriptions of the more common and useful species of Massachusetts, with accounts of their food habits, and a chapter on the means of attracting and protecting birds . may be right in The distances from the ground as given here are not arbitrary. I have kncmithe Chickadee, for instance, to nest at different heiglits, from two to fifty-tivefeet from the ground. ^ Tliis size of box is probably none too large for the Screech Owl, as three orfour young birds .soon render the edges of the nest very filthy, and on this ac-count probably require extra room. Nevertheless, a pair of Screech Owls at ourhome in AVareham reared a lirood of four young in the grocery box sho\An in theupper figure on Plate XLVITI. AlloMing the birds to be the best judges of whatthey want, the dimensions of this box, seven by eleven by fifteen inches, and thesize of the entrance, three by four inches, may be useful to those who wish to at-tract this bird. It was noted that during the daytime, at least, the mother Owl intliis box always sat with her head away from the entrance, and in the darkestcorner, — an incubating position sometimes assumed by the day birds that nestin PL-ATE L. — Owl Box, at Authors Home. The front has been removed,and the niotlier lifted to show the downy young. (Photograph, fromlife, by C. Allan Lyford.)
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