Identifier: babybirdsathomebb00kear (find matches)
Title: Baby birds at home
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Kearton, Richard, 1862-1928
Subjects: Birds -- Behavior Birds -- Juvenile literature
Publisher: London, New York (etc.) Cassell and company, ltd.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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lyadapted for seeing things in half darkness,and they easily capture small birds roostingin trees and bushes. This is why blackbirds,chaffinches, and other feathered dwellers inwoods mob the Brown Owl when they comeupon him asleep by day. An owls feathers are covered with finesoft down. For this reason you do not hearthe birds wings when it flies close over yourhead, and it is enabled to steal upon its preyunnoticed. The Brown Owl does not make a nestof any kind. It lays its three or four whiteeggs in a hollow tree, cleft of rock in a cliff,or a hole in the wall of some old building. Baby owls are clothed in beautiful whitefluffy down, and when you find a brood ofthese chicks, you will notice that they alldiffer in size, just as the members of a familyof four or five boys and girls do. The factis, owls do not lay their eggs as quickly asother birds. They rest two or three daysbetween each, and in consequence, the firstchick is hatched quite a long time beforethe last one of the brood.
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LESSER WHITETHROAT. The Lesser Whitethroat THIS little bird is far less numerous thanits better known relative, the Commonor Greater Whitethroat. You are most likelyto meet with it in the south and east ofEngland, whither it will return to a favouritehaunt in a thick old hedgerow, year afteryear, with the utmost regularity. It is a little over five inches in length,light slaty grey in colour on its head, andgreyish brown on its upper parts. The wingand tail feathers are dusky, edged withgreyish brown, whereas in the case of itslarger and better known relative, thesefeathers are bordered with chestnut brown.The throat and under parts are white,faintly tinged on the breast and sides withpink. The Lesser Whitethroat, like many othermembers of the Warbler family, spends thewinter in southern Europe and northernAfrica. Upon arriving in England in the 79 80 Baby Birds at Home spring it resorts to the most secluded hedge-rows, old lanes, and thickets where it maybe seen by the quiet observer

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