Identifier: howtoattractbird00bla (find matches)
Title: How to attract the birds : and other talks about bird neighbors
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Blanchan, Neltje, 1865-1918
Subjects: Birds Bird attracting
Publisher: New York : Doubleday Page
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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Yellow warblers nest, showing how the bird has rebuilt because of repeatedpersecutions of the cowbird. (One cowbirds egg in the nest even now) HOME LIFE
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CHAPTER IV HOME LIFE Sharp, ringing cries of alarm, then of terror,comins: from a pair of robins one morning in June,caused me to drop my work suddenly, dash out ofdoors and follow the sound through the garden,across the lane to a meadow where a vagrant cat,with a now-or-never desperation, made a leap throughthe grass even as I approached and, before my veryeyes, snapped up a baby robin in its cruel jaws.With as frantic a leap upon the cat, I quickly priedits jaws apart and released the limp and apparentlydead bird. Three other young robins, which hadfallen out of the same nest in the cherry tree when aheavy thunder shower weakened its mud-plasteredwalls the night before, were squatting dejectedly onthe ground, unable to flv. So I gathered them up inmy arms too, lest they fall a certain prey to the cat,and deposited the little family in an improvisedflannel nest on a sunny upper balcony. One might have supposed that the parents wouldfind them here, within fifty yards of their cherrytr

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