. Bird lore . A May Morning BY FRED. H. KENNARD rHERE is a bird pasture, as I call it, about a half hoursride from Boston, and thither I went on May 30, 1898,^ to see if I could find the nest of a White-eyed Vireo that I had often hunted for in years gone by, butnever yet succeeded in finding. This bird pasture, on one side of which runs theroad, consists of eight or ten acres of old, wet pas-ture land on a hillside surrounded on two othersides by fields and an orchard, and immediatelyabove a marsh in which the sedges and grasses growluxuriantly, and which is bordered by alders, birches and ot
. Bird lore . A May Morning BY FRED. H. KENNARD rHERE is a bird pasture, as I call it, about a half hoursride from Boston, and thither I went on May 30, 1898,^ to see if I could find the nest of a White-eyed Vireo that I had often hunted for in years gone by, butnever yet succeeded in finding. This bird pasture, on one side of which runs theroad, consists of eight or ten acres of old, wet pas-ture land on a hillside surrounded on two othersides by fields and an orchard, and immediatelyabove a marsh in which the sedges and grasses growluxuriantly, and which is bordered by alders, birches and otherswamp-loving trees. The pasture itself is very wet in one portion,and has been overgrown with birch, alders, oak and tangles of grape-vines, wait-a-bits, poison ivy, etc. In another part it is more open,and is more sparsely covered with red cedars and white pines, whilethe ground is dotted with wild roses and hard-hack, interspersed withclumps of alders. This combination of hill and marsh, field andorchard,
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