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Identifier: howtohavebirdnei00patt (find matches)
Title: How to have bird neighbors
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Patteson, S. Louise (Susanna Louise), 1853-1922
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) D.C. Heath and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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lldeer guarded the premises and told 54 HOW TO HAVE BIRD NEIGHBORS us by his various shrieks and somersaults that hewished we would not go near enough to disturbher. On the farm that day I saw the golden-throatedmeadowlark. He is another yodeler. His favoritetune is: lee-Le- o- o- loo His songs ring so clear and flute-like that I can hearhim away over at our place. He is a brown bob-tailed bird. Over a beautiful yellow front he has ablack band, pointing down in the middle, V-shaped.A large company of these birds were in the meadow,happy as larks; so they are well named meadowlarks.But think of a dear little bird and such a sweetsinger as the song sparrow, bearing the same name asthe odious English sparrow! It seems unjust, andin this the boy agreed with me. We got to talkingabout the song sparrow because one was on a fencepost near by, singing over and over this lively ditty: The bluebirds home that the boy had mentionedat the beginning of my visit was in a hole of an apple THE BOY 55
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THE BLUEBIRDS IN THEIR PRIMITIVE HOME tree. By standing on tiptoe I could look in and seefour light-blue eggs lying on a nest of grasses thatlooked like a cunning little basket. It was a hot day,too hot for Mother Bluebird to stay in that hollowtree all the time. She was out playing tag withMr. Bluebird. Perhaps she thought the hot airwould keep her eggs warm. After she went in againhe visited her often with food. Before going after 56 HOW TO HAVE BIRD NEIGHBORS more he usually perched on a little knob just abovethe entrance and sang. Sometimes she came out onthe ledge to listen. It was a winsome sight to seethe bluebirds in their primitive home. This was the bluebirds second nesting on the farm.Their first one had been destroyed by the Englishsparrows. The boy said he had tried in every wayto help the bluebirds, and that, whenever he saw anysparrows near, he gave a sharp whistle — his con-fidential whistle, he called it — and that Mrs. Blue-bird got so she understood what it mean

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