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Identifier: cu31924022541563 (find matches)
Title: A year with the birds
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Ball, Alice Eliza, 1867- Horsfall, R. Bruce (Robert Bruce), 1869-1948
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: New York : Gibbs & Van Vleck
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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r; but I fain would knowHow you can so reckless and fearless go,Head upward, head downward, all one to you.Zenith and nadir the same in your view? Edith M. Thomas 39 *The Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers Tree-dwelling insects must quiet be,When Downy knocks at their door in a tree;His ears are so sharp, if they stir a mite.He will dig them out for a toothsome bite.And when in winter they all are dead,Youll see his bobbing, red-capped headIn search of the eggs theyve hidden away,In the trunks of the trees, now gaunt and gray. Downy and Hairy look as though They had had a frolic in the snow; Had tumbled about till their breasts were white, And with Jack Frost had a snowball fight. Till their backs were streaked, and flecked were their wings;The grove with their cheerful voices rings!Carx they be playing hide-and-seek?Just hear them call, Peek—peek! Peek—peek! A. E. B. *NoTE.—Lower figure—Hairy Woodpecker; middle figure, without redon head—Female Downy; upper figure—Male Downy. 40
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The Brown Creeper 41 The Brown Creeper I am Little Brown Creeper—White-flecked and pale gray, With no red on my headLike the woodpeckers gay. They climb up the trees; Nuthatches run down;I circle the trunks— A tiny sprite brown. With my long curving bill Eggs of insects I seek,And I timidly call, Skreek-Skreek, skreek-skreek! You may find me in winter, A visitor shy;In the spring, to my home In the North woods I fly. A. E. B. 42

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