. Bird-lore . hful for a youngBluebird. Several times a day I would climb up to the nest and whistle softlylike a Bluebird before the aperture. The young would crane their necks andstretch their mouths for the supposed food, although none was the young flew from the nest, I felt as though I had lost a grief was not such that I could not capture them, however, and aftercounting noses, I found that one was missing. I climbed up and there I foundruntie at the bottom of the nest, pitifully squeaking at being left alone. Itook out the bottom and extracted him. Finally, af
. Bird-lore . hful for a youngBluebird. Several times a day I would climb up to the nest and whistle softlylike a Bluebird before the aperture. The young would crane their necks andstretch their mouths for the supposed food, although none was the young flew from the nest, I felt as though I had lost a grief was not such that I could not capture them, however, and aftercounting noses, I found that one was missing. I climbed up and there I foundruntie at the bottom of the nest, pitifully squeaking at being left alone. Itook out the bottom and extracted him. Finally, after half an hour or moreof posing, I got sev-eral good pictures of M^ ^^*^*^^hpm<*^M^^^& Vithe babies on a dead m^ ... ^. T mlMi^^m / %branch. When Iopened the nest-logto clean it, I founda little block ofgrasses about threeinches in diameterand one inch fairly glistenedwith shed feather-sheaths. In the bot-tom were six or seven LEAVING HOMEbugs, 01 the species Photographed by W. R. Boulton, The Audubon Societies 125 mentioned before, that had evidently escaped the birds. Exactly two monthsafter the first egg was laid, the second nest of the same pair was nearing com-pletion in another of my boxes. Here are the dates. May 29. First egg laid. June i. Fourth egg laid. May 30. Second egg laid. June i6. Young hatched. May 31. Third egg laid. June 23. Young have not flown yet. While the female was incubating, the male still fed the young of the firstbrood, although not so often as when they left the nest.—Wolfrid RudyerdBouLTON, Jr. (Age 14 years), Beaver, Pa. [Perhaps no better word of appreciation of this carefully worded description ofpersonal observations could be given than to quote from a letter written by Mr. HerbertK. Job with reference to the data given by Master Boulton, Jr.: His accurate informa-tion about the periods of incubation and rearing of the Bluebird came in handy to mejust now, as there is a pair in a box up-state which I want to film at just t
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