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Title: Animal snapshots and how made
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Lottridge, Silas Alpha, 1863-
Subjects: Nature photography Animal behavior Birds
Publisher: New York, H. Holt
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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ths the birds are not soscarce, only we must know where and how to lookfor them. We have with us our permanent residents,which include most of the hawks and owls, blue jay,bob-white, song sparrow, crow, meadow lark, flicker,American goldfinch, ruffed grouse, purple finch, anda few others. These with our winter residents, thebrown creeper, junco, crossbill, white-throated spar-row, snowflake, northern shrike, and redpoll, stillleave us a considerable variety for study. A thoroughacquaintance with these winter birds alone will takeus many a season. These are but a few of the many facts concerning igz The Migration of Birds bird migration. As you study the subject from yearto year, and carefully compare your notes, you willfind the movement a very constant and regular one,and, as time goes on, your interest in it will increaserather than diminish, and you will find yourselfwondering why it is that each spring you greet thebluebird and the oriole wi h a little deeper feeling. THE BLUEBIRD
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GENTLE south windhas beenblowing at intervals fora week, the snow banksare diminishing in size,and here and there thebrown earth seems to bepushing itself up frombeneath the drifts. Thesun has loosed the ice-fetters, and again themurmur of the brook isheard; while over the^^^^^^^^^^_ water the pussy willows ^^ T qro han^^ing their swollenSection Removed Showing In- arc 11^11^1116 buds, and out in the grove 193 TERIOR WITH NeST AND EGGS 194 The Bluebird the sap is beginning to drop from the maple trees.These are indeed signs of spring! Now it is time tolisten for the note of the bluebird. A plaintive noteit is at first, but it will soon give place to a pleasingsong, never loud, but always sweet and altogethersuggestive of the warblers. How welcome it is,—that bit of blue and brown,flitting among the yet naked boughs of the old appletrees! We look for the bluebird in spring with afeeling different from that for any other bird duringthe whole year. His note awakens within us theassuran

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