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Identifier: birdlore131911nati (find matches)
Title: Bird lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Committee of the Audubon Societies of America National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals National Audubon Society
Subjects: Birds Birds Ornithology
Publisher: New York City : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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m now trying, by supplying certain of the deficiencies, to make itpossible for these to return; and, in one instance, the success was posi-tively startling. For many years we had a Screech Owl brood as a matter of certainty;then certain old trees and nooky out-buildings disappeared, and with themthe Owls. This autumn in making some Bluebird boxes of old shingles,with top and bottom of strong new wood, I had a length of pine plankan inch and a half thick to spare. This was roughly fashioned into a coupleof boxes one foot square with a hole three and a half inches in diameterrather nearer the top than the bottom. A single shingle fastened on the, roof was so angled as to keep rain or snow from the opening. In lookingfor a suitable spot for the houses, two Norway pines seemed promising.Each had lost twenty feet of the top by wind and lightning, and thebranches, in one instance, had stretched up as if to hide the scar. Theboxes were placed on the tree-tops, the twelfth of December, to the
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Birds and Seasons in My Garden 5 tune of very skeptical remarks by the man who did the climbing,to the effect that I might get a gray squirrel to look at the box,but, as for anything as leery as an Owl, it would look like a trap—new wood too. Here a sniff came in for punctuation. But then, thebox was of an awkward shape to get between the thick branches, andit was a sticky rough bit of climbing which may be considered as tinginghis opinion. Box No. 2, on the taller tree, stood out well from the branches andcaught every possible ray of sunlight, while the other was in a thicklywooded place shadow, except for a short time in the afternoon. Three days later, the doubting Thomas called me. He was choppingwood under box No. i, to which he called my attention by an upward jerkof his thumb. There, completely filling the doorway, was the head of arust-red Screech Owl, eyes apparently closed, yet evidently sufiicientlyawake to enjoy his sun-bath to the full. Every bright day until the presen

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