Identifier: birdsnature11905chic (find matches)
Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Swallows havechanged their habits and accepted itsbuildings as protection for nests andyoung. We may take it as an espe-cial mark of the confiding nature ofthis bird that its nest is placed insidethe barn, and we shall not be far astrayso far as the birds disposition is con-cerned. The nest is a bracket-like structuremade of pellets of mud or sandy clayintermixed with fine hay and madeadhesive by the birds saliva. Within,upon a bed of fine hay, a soft lining offeathers is placed, upon which the fourto six eggs are laid. Sometimes thenests are built upon the timbers of oldbridges. Swallows are aftectionate and socia-ble. They nest in colonies and whenthe young birds can take care of them-selves several families unite in largeflocks which roost together at night,and soar over the same area during theday. It is not uncommon to find inthese flocks more than one species ofswallows. Their happy and cheerfuldisposition is shown by the sprightlynotes which are uttered with much ani-mation. J
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AMONG THE TREES. THE WILLOW. It was one of those warm, delightfuldays, when Nature seemed to beckonand to lure her lovers into field andwood; to leave behind the city with itsnoise and bustle, its din and strife, itsgreed and gain and come out into Godsworld; to listen to His little choristers,to look up into the blue dome of His vastcathedral frescoed with beautiful clouds,and be refreshed and strengthened. Mabel could not longer resist the im-pulse to toss aside her sewing, and yield-ing, she took a broad-rimmed hat andcrossing the lawn followed a little by-path toi the river, where she stepped intoa canoe and was soon afloat on. the broadbosom of the stream. How pretty thebanks looked with their great masses offoliage brightened by festoons of wildcucumber vines! She thoroughly en-joyed the scene as she made her waydown stream, each bend in the riveropening out like a panorama before herappreciative eyes as she drifted idly, orglided swiftly, plying her paddle as deftlyand softly a

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