Identifier: gleaningsfromnat14513jaco (find matches)
Title: Gleanings from nature
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Jacobs, Joseph Warren, 1868-
Subjects: Birds Ornithology
Publisher: Waynesburg, Pa. : Independent Book & Job Office
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snested. The colony was established in 1896,—four pairsnesting. With each succeeding year the colony increasedsteadily until 1905, when more than half the two hundredbirds arriving were discouraged from nesting by continuouscool, wet weather, and left the neighborhood, never to re-turn. Since that date, my colony has never contained morethan fifty nests. A larger number of birds arrive at thehouses in early spring, but later, many of them go elsewhereto breed, presumably to the numerous new houses put up forthem in the city or immediate vicinity. One of these houses stands in the center of the lawn be-tween my residence and one of the buildings in which ourbird-house factory is conducted; one stands in the edge ofthe garden some eighty feet south of this one, and directlywest of this is the third house, close the street and near theoutspreading branches of large ornamental maple trees,which have not yet reached so near as to menace the houseas a favorite summer home for the martins.
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Jacobs Martin houses, where dwell the hosts of Purple Martins whichgo forth to cleanse the air of insect pests, ever ready to descend, withdestructive effect, upon the foliage and vegetation below. The left hand cut shows two of the houses on my grounds; the one inthe foreground, a 45 room structure, and the one in the distance, nearthe right margin of the picture is a 66 room mansion. The tree branchesspreading from the left, are those of a fall pippin apple tree. In thistree in 1911, two families of catbirds and one family of chippingsparrows were reared. The central cut is a 34 room martin residence,—a favorite with themartins,—situated eighty feet west, or to the right, of the 66 room struc-ture. The cut on the right shows a 20 room martin house erected last year,in the green plot in front of the W. & W. R. R. passenger station, onthe opposite side of the street from my property. In the midst of this triangle, formed by the location ofthe martin houses, and partly sheltere

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