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Identifier: birdlore151913nati (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 Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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i56 Bird-Lore same time in apparent harmony. My presence only seemed to disturb thisotherwise contented colony. It is probable that, in the making, the upper apartment required a car-penter in the person of a Downy Woodpecker, while the three lower oneswere the work of the Flickers, or Yellow-hammers, the lowest cavity being
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NESTING-HOLES OF SPARROW HAWK, FLICKER AND BLUEBIRD IN THE CENTRAL TRUNK. The Bluebird is shown covering the entrance to its nest made that season; probably being necessary because of the early occupancyof last years Flicker home by the Sparrow Hawks who were earlier out fora rent. Some who do not know the general habits of the Sparrow Hawk wouldprobably not be reconciled to the fact that the Bluebirds and Yellow-hammers A Bird Apartment House 157 selected sites in this branch with the Hawk family. However, the SparrowHawk, like the Red-shouldered Hawk, is not so bad as he is painted, and busieshimself catching grasshoppers, field-mice, etc., only occasionally catching asick or maimed bird easily run down. The unmistakable alarm note of the Bluebird was in evidence, althoughthe Sparrow Hawks made their share of noise. The brooding Flicker seemedanxious to return again to her nest, which would indicate that there was aclutch of eggs about to give up their tiny contents. When she left t

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