. Birds of South Dakota . ey easily climb into highbushes and even ascend sloping trees. The writer was one dayattracted by the combined cries of seemingly all the birds in theneighborhood—cries of fear, terror and distress. A snake hadclimbed into a high gooseberry bush which held a Catbirdsnest, and was leisurely gulping down one of the half-grownyoung. All the birds were vainly endeavoring to drive him away,but he paid no attention. A bull snake rifled a Cheewinks nestwhich the writer was watching for photographic purposes, andmade his own nest or burrow under it. He had driven a holedirect
. Birds of South Dakota . ey easily climb into highbushes and even ascend sloping trees. The writer was one dayattracted by the combined cries of seemingly all the birds in theneighborhood—cries of fear, terror and distress. A snake hadclimbed into a high gooseberry bush which held a Catbirdsnest, and was leisurely gulping down one of the half-grownyoung. All the birds were vainly endeavoring to drive him away,but he paid no attention. A bull snake rifled a Cheewinks nestwhich the writer was watching for photographic purposes, andmade his own nest or burrow under it. He had driven a holedirectly through the center of the nest. The young were de-stroyed but one unbroken egg was found in the loose dirt whichthe snake had worked up. Many birds nests are destroyed by wind and writer has known a Cuckoos nest to be literally blown outof the tree; and every few years after a severe wind and rainstorm both eggs and young birds are seen beside or on thewalk between his home and the University in Vermillion,.
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