. Common birds of town and country . AVORITE NEST-BOX Photo by George R. King Of bird-houses, to be supplied for those birds that nest about buildings or in holes oftrees, there seems to be an almost infinite variety; tree stumps, real or artificial, boxes, cot-tages, houses, large and elaborate mansions, barrel-houses, gourds, flower-pots, tin-cans,shelves, and all kinds of contraptions (see page 339). The nest-boxes on my place havebeen occupied by screech-owls, bluebirds, chickadees, tree-swallows, flickers, white-breastednuthatches, and great-crested flycatchers (see page 341). winter be s
. Common birds of town and country . AVORITE NEST-BOX Photo by George R. King Of bird-houses, to be supplied for those birds that nest about buildings or in holes oftrees, there seems to be an almost infinite variety; tree stumps, real or artificial, boxes, cot-tages, houses, large and elaborate mansions, barrel-houses, gourds, flower-pots, tin-cans,shelves, and all kinds of contraptions (see page 339). The nest-boxes on my place havebeen occupied by screech-owls, bluebirds, chickadees, tree-swallows, flickers, white-breastednuthatches, and great-crested flycatchers (see page 341). winter be surrounded by the verdure ofsummer, we need not content ourselveswith the bare poles of deciduous protect us and delight oureyes with their color and varying lightsand shadows, and what is more beautiful than a pine wood or group of evergreensafter a snow-storm ? Those of us who possess farms, whilenaturally jealous of every encroachmenton our fields, can always find some placewhich may be planted. The immediate 322. Photo by Ernest Harold Baynes FLICKERS USING A BERLEPSCH BIRD-BOX I have used the Bcrlepseh type of vertical boxes with considerable success. These aresimply sections of logs, hollowed out by special machinery in a very particular manner torepresent woodpeckers cavities, with entrance hole in side of desired diameter, and coveredby a wooden cap or roof that may be lifted for purposes of investigation or in order thatthe nests may be cleaned out from time to time, tlje whole bolted to an oaken batten, bywhich they may be fastened to trees (see page 339). surroundings of our farm buildings are in many cases much too bare and bleak. The average house when surrounded by proper planting almost invariably looks better than if left to stand out cold andhard and with base-line unbroken. Windbreaks may almost always be plantedsomewhere, both with benefit to the farm 323
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