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Identifier: howtohavebirdnei00patt (find matches)
Title: How to have bird neighbors
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Patteson, S. Louise (Susanna Louise), 1853-1922
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) D.C. Heath and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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oles, andfrom there pounced on many a luckless worm or bugthat their sharp eyes espied. I am sure the bluebirdsare great helpers in a garden. After two busy weeks of baby-tending, Father andMother Bluebird did just what the little wrens haddone. They made the babies come outside for theirfood, or go hungry. I think the first little bird to leave a nest must be HOW TO HAVE BIRD NEIGHBORS very courageous. Theothers usually followclose after him. It wasso with these blue-birds. And as theycame out, one afteranother, Mothercoaxed them over tothe thornapple bushes.She did it by calling,Dear dear, and fly-ing back and forthbetween the little houseand the bushes. Some of the babybluebirds were quiteobedient and flew afterthe mother. Two likedit so well on a branchin front of their housethat they stayed therea while; then flew toother branches in thesame tree. Fatherlooked after these, andMother stayed withthe other three. Whata chatter they alwaysmade when food was brought to them! It seemed
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THE BLUEBIRDS MOVED INTOTHE PRETTY DOUBLE HOUSE THE BLUEBIRDS BUNGALOW 35 as if each one said: Come to me! Come to me While Father and Mother Bluebird had those babiesto feed and to care for, they started another house-keeping. This time they moved into the prettydouble house and took the lower story. In the secondcoming-out party there were four more little bluebirds. All through this second housekeeping the Englishsparrows tried repeatedly to get into the upper story,and Father Bluebird had to spend much time chasingthem away. In the one-story house he had that muchmore time to get food, or to sing. I did not clean the bungalow house after their firstnesting, because I did not want the bluebirds to nestin it again. After the double house was vacated, Icleaned both houses, and found that the bluebirdshad used only grasses and a few feathers for theirnesting. In each case they had covered the entirefloor with grasses, but the cup-like nest was backagainst the rear wall, as far from th

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