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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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Birds and Seasons in My Garden 233 the Black and White, the Myrtle Warbler, the Redstart, who if it turnedsky-blue, could not disguise its flickering flight, and the BlackpoU. In the greenest of seasons, the leaves of creeper and swamp maples will beturning when the first of the half-dozen small, but most characteristic, winterbirds arrive. These we greet with a wholly different feeling from that calledforth by the migrants, who, though interesting, are but marks of the passingseason. There is something about the winter birds that makes for a sturdy sortof permanence. They may, to a certain extent, come and go; but, as long as weremember them with food and shelter, they are quite sure to abide. When, in late September, a little feathered something bobs in and out amongthe apple twigs, I know, without looking in detail, that the Golden-crowned
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WHERE ALL UMvNOWN TO ME AN 0\EX-BIRD HAS NESTED Kinglet has arrived, and that it is time to expect the Winter Wren about thewood-pile, the White-throat in Thrush Lane, and the Junco hobnobbing withboth Song and a few unabashed English Sparrows on the feeding-board. Now,at any time, I watch for flocking Purple Finches in the honeysuckle,—a spec-tacle often repeated in all but the severest weather of January and February. As the leaves fall away, there are many surprises and the finding of emptynests in wholly unexpected places, one of the greatest of these having been theground nest among the ferns from which the Oven-bird takes its name. We always have these birds in the spring. In past times a few have nested,but lately they have left the place for near-by woods; yet, in raking leaves from 234 Bird-Lore beneath a triple birch tree where the ground was thick with Christmas fernsthere was the oven-shaped nest still holding an unhatched Cowbirds egg. In-stantly the question asked itse

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