. The home life of wild birds; a new method of the study and photography of birds. Birds; Photography of birds. 20 Wild Birds. The Redwing Blackbird. young who for a long time had been exercising his wing- and leg-muscles by climbing to the rim of the pouch, took his first flight, making a neighboring tree. Not long after, a second bird climbed out of the sack and was off, lured away by its parents. The third and last bird left a little later, and towards evening the young weve calling from trees down the hillside. On the fifth day of July a nest of three )-oung Blackbirds (No. 2 of the table)
. The home life of wild birds; a new method of the study and photography of birds. Birds; Photography of birds. 20 Wild Birds. The Redwing Blackbird. young who for a long time had been exercising his wing- and leg-muscles by climbing to the rim of the pouch, took his first flight, making a neighboring tree. Not long after, a second bird climbed out of the sack and was off, lured away by its parents. The third and last bird left a little later, and towards evening the young weve calling from trees down the hillside. On the fifth day of July a nest of three )-oung Blackbirds (No. 2 of the table), aged five days, was found on the edge of what was once an alder swamp, close to the town and the " Cove " made by the Winnipi- seogee River in Northfield. It was fixed to several slender stems of Spira;a, amid a dense tangle of Cephalthus, wild roses, and purple milkweeds. The situation was so attractive and offered such fine op- portunities for studying these birds that, notwithstanding the "water and mud, I determined to make careful preparations. A space four feet square was at once cleared of bushes at one side of tlie nest. In order to sky the birds, the nesting twigs were slightly raised, but none of these were severed or otherwise dis- placed. On the ninth of July I built a raft or platform on the cleared area, and painted it green, possibly an unnecessary precaution. When weighted with the observer and his apparatus, the flooring was barel)' clear of the water. On the following day, the tent was pitched over this stranded raft and guyed to the bushes, the tent poles having been previously lengthened to suit the depth of mud and water. Everything \\-as ready for observations at half-past nine o'clock. At first the birds fluttered around the nest cliuck- iiig and whistling incessantly, but in less than an hour the warble of the male \\as heard, which is a sure sign of growing confidence. Then both birds went off for food, returned, reconnoitred the tent a
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