Identifier: birdloreas12nati (find matches)
Title: Bird-lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Conservation Periodicals
Publisher: New York, National Association of Audubon Societies
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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er my window, and to thisthey came for loose fibers. Whatplucky little workers they were,planting their feet upon the rope, and diving their little bills into it, and heav-ing away like veritable sailors! Another old rope hung tied to a limb of thenearest tree, and to this they went for more fibers. What difference does itmake to these birds whether they are right-side-up or up-side-down? Tothis rope they clung in all attitudes, often making it swing by their efforts,and clinging and pulling away as it swung. I am writing as though both male and female did the work. Their colorsare the same, though the male is a trifle larger. But their movements are sorapid that it is not always easy to be sure which bird enters the nest withmaterial. I suspect, however, that the female does most of the work of carry-ing in material, for the larger bird often acted in a very masculine fashion, m w ^^^m-^^^ ;H I ^^Ir^ 1 S H^H ^ ISb^^I Wf ■ Hi w SBf^^^^U 1 1^ THE CHICKADEES HOME-SITE A Chickadee Home
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MOTHER WAS NOT AFRAID OF ME AT ALL following the ottuT bird as she flew to the nest with material, and looking inat her as she arranged it. I presume there were many words of encourage-ment and praise which I could not hear; yet I thought it would have beenmore to the point had he done some of the hard work. On z^pril 25, however,the male completely disarmed my criticism by sitting on the telephone wire 222 Bird - Lore

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