. Nature study and life. Nature study. DOMESTICATION OF OUR WILD BIRDS 33 I know they drink often, and they must have their baths once a day and probably twice in hot weather. Another kind of bath the birds know how to take, and people should indulge in more, is the sun bath. The bird leans over, broadside to the sun, the wings fall, the bill opens, and every feather is raised to let the light strike the skin. When we see it for the first time, we think the bird is dying ; but as the solid comfort of it is Fig. 128. Mocking Bird taking a Sun Bath we can hardly resist the temptati
. Nature study and life. Nature study. DOMESTICATION OF OUR WILD BIRDS 33 I know they drink often, and they must have their baths once a day and probably twice in hot weather. Another kind of bath the birds know how to take, and people should indulge in more, is the sun bath. The bird leans over, broadside to the sun, the wings fall, the bill opens, and every feather is raised to let the light strike the skin. When we see it for the first time, we think the bird is dying ; but as the solid comfort of it is Fig. 128. Mocking Bird taking a Sun Bath we can hardly resist the temptation to go and do like- wise,— bask in the sun. The lack of pure water and suitable places to bathe may go farther than anything else toward explaining the disappearance of birds from our cities during the hot, dry summer months. We see them drinking and bathing in the gutters and mud puddles, and is it not natural that they take their nestlings to the country as soon as they can ' fifteen minutes, and so it goes in tlie noon hour whenever I have time to watch. Nothing adds more to the comfort of birds in hot Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hodge, Clifton Fremont, 1859-. Boston and London, Ginn & Co.
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