. Bird lore . MALE TREE SWALLOW AT HOME (13^) 134 Bird-Lore I grafted an old Downy Woodpeckers nest on to the top of another postwhich was driven out in the water, and before I had rowed my boat 15 feet awayfrom it, a female Tree Swallow had alighted and was peering into the hole,while her mate was hovering overhead. The hole seemed to suit, as theyalmost immediately took possession and began to carry nest materials into A TREE SWALLOW FAMILY.—THE MOTHER RETURNS Although they began nest-building thus early, it was done in a rather desultorymanner, and they did not appear in real earnest u
. Bird lore . MALE TREE SWALLOW AT HOME (13^) 134 Bird-Lore I grafted an old Downy Woodpeckers nest on to the top of another postwhich was driven out in the water, and before I had rowed my boat 15 feet awayfrom it, a female Tree Swallow had alighted and was peering into the hole,while her mate was hovering overhead. The hole seemed to suit, as theyalmost immediately took possession and began to carry nest materials into A TREE SWALLOW FAMILY.—THE MOTHER RETURNS Although they began nest-building thus early, it was done in a rather desultorymanner, and they did not appear in real earnest until the latter part of June 20 they were feeding young, both parents working diligently andsupplying an abundance of food, various small dragon-flies forming a large partof it. Both parents were seen carrying excreta from the nest, flying with it outover the water, where they dropped it 5 or 6 rods from the nest. A record of a typical half-hours observation at the nest June 30 follows:Female feeds young while the male sits on top of the stub resting and yawningseveral times, then he flies away and soon returns with a small dragon-fly,which he takes into the nest and almost immediately reappears with excretawhich he carries out over the water, dropping it some distance away. Soonhe comes again with another dragonfly, alights at the hole, but flies away againwithout entering; does this several times, then ente
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