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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on to inhabit some favourite breed-ing haunt. The nest of this species is made of straws,rootlets, moss, hair, feathers and rabbitsdown. It is built on the branches of fruittrees trained against walls, holes in walls, onledges of rock, on the stumps of broken trees,on the ends of beams projecting from oldhouses, and in recesses in the trunks of treescaused by the wood decaying. The eggs, as a rule, number five, of agreyish or light green colour, marked withfaint red or reddish brown. Nestling Flycatchers keep their parentsbusy procuring winged insects for them, andwhen you are near one of the old birds inthe act of seizing a fly, you can actuallyhear its bill snap as it closes on the lucklesscreature. No sooner has a sufficient collec-tion of flies been made than away hies theparent bird to the nest with them. Thenthere is great excitement. Every neck isstretched, and every mouth is widely openedin expectation of a dainty morsel. Some-times bees and quite large moths are broughtalong.
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The Blue-headed Wagtail THIS is a rare British bird, found breedingoccasionally in Kent and Sussex. Itis similar in size, shape and general appear-ance to our familiar friend, the Yellow Wag-tail, but there is one feature by which themales of one species can always be dis-tinguished from those of the other. Thehead of the Yellow Wagtail is of a very paleolive colour, with a streak of bright yellowover the eye, or the head may be yellow allover, whereas that of the bird under noticeis bluish grey, and the streak over the eye iswhite. The call notes of this bird are almostexactly like those of the Yellow Wagtail,and can be heard at a considerable distance. If you set out to find a nest you willdiscover, as the writer has done on the Con-tinent, that it is exceedingly well hiddenunder an overhanging tuft of grass, in a hole under a large stone, or amongst the 27 28 Baby Birds at Home exposed roots of a tree. The old birds guardtheir secret well by calling, flying overheadand generally en

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