Identifier: camerastudiesofw1911reed (find matches)
Title: Camera studies of wild birds in their homes
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Reed, Chester A, (Chester Albert. 1876-1912
Subjects: Birds Photography
Publisher: Boston : W.B. Clarke Co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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Fig. 70. The sleeve of scare-crow opened so as to show thenest and put my arm about her without any attempt to get away.Naturally such a statement would be viewed with somedoubt and I would be called upon for proof. The proofwas easy, for I had but to step up to the post and put myarm about it, the bird at the time being sitting closely uponthe eggs within. Usually two broods a year were reared inthis secure home. 82 Little bluebirds have blue backs and brownish breasts,like their parents but^ like all members of the thrush fam-ih to which Bluebirds belong, they have spotted breastsand more or less spotting on their backs. This plumage islost at the first moult and thej- become just like their par-ents. Bluebirds do not alwavs nest in hollow trees or fences:
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Fig. 71. BLUEBIRD. many a boy or girl has a little bird box built expressly fortheir use, and they are very glad to use them if Englishsparrows can be kept from pestering them. They alsosometimes build in very odd places as can be seen by thephotographs of the nest in the sleeve of a scarecrow. Blue Jay Blue Jays always seem like old friends to me. I haveseen a great many of them under all conditions of life. I

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