Identifier: americanornithol05reed (find matches)
Title: American ornithology, for home and school
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Reed, Chester A. (Chester Albert), 1876-1912
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: (Worcester, Mass. : Charles K. Reed)
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ere by the window and watch my pets. Inboxes outside of the window sill I have nuts, bread, cracker and potato,and upon a rose bush close by I have tied bones and suet. Put yourface down close to the glass and wait—one, two, three—sevenChickadees in the bunch, five, six tree sparrows. Here they come,two nuthatches; by and by two downy Woodpeckers. But wait, a rowin camp! Two tree sparrows come, one in each box and look up inyour face: two or three more come and want to eat, and the other twoare standing, mouth wide open and wings outspread, screaming at thetop of their voices. There! Here at last comes Bobby, whos Bobby?Well, one of the tree sparrows met with an accident, and in some waylost all of his tail feathers so we called him Bobby. He was very cold. One little Blackcap looks in at the window and calls chip! chip!chick! I go to the window and put my fingers out towards the littlefellow and he jumps to the glass and pecks it as hard as he can to get AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 151
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Copyrighted 1904 by J. B. Parker.an entomologist(Female Ked-wiiiged Blackbird feeding a Dragon Fly to her young). 152 AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. my fingers, and then I put up the window and hold my hand out tohim. One, two, three, four, into my hand they come, then fly off tohide a walnut or a crumb, and back again after more. I have foundthey have the five calls,—Pewee! pewee! to call together; a fretfulcall when hunting for food, seeing a cat, or mad at each other, andtheir happy call, Chickadee-dee! and their soft murmuring song. They are so tame that if one of them sees a bit he thinks he wouldlike better than that in my hand, he will get in the box and crawl undermy hand to get it. I had one purple finch come during the first snowstorm. Mrs. Downy Woodpecker is as nice and dainty as she can be,standing close by the window while I put my face to the glass and talkto her, while she looks up and winks and blinks like a dove. She iswithin a foot of the glass, I raise the window and she

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