. Bird-lore . ent times during this winter I have seen a Shrikewhich we boys have watched kill Sparrows. I have also seen White-breasted Nuthatches, which feed in the trees inthe street where I live. One day fromthe front window of my house I sawa little brown bird on a tree trunk onthe other side of the street. I ranover, and was so busy following himaround the tree, that I didnt noticethe ash-box, and of course fell into it didnt frighten the brave littleBrown Creeper, who kept going uparound the tree. When I got up, heflew to the bottom of another tree andbegan going around up that.
. Bird-lore . ent times during this winter I have seen a Shrikewhich we boys have watched kill Sparrows. I have also seen White-breasted Nuthatches, which feed in the trees inthe street where I live. One day fromthe front window of my house I sawa little brown bird on a tree trunk onthe other side of the street. I ranover, and was so busy following himaround the tree, that I didnt noticethe ash-box, and of course fell into it didnt frighten the brave littleBrown Creeper, who kept going uparound the tree. When I got up, heflew to the bottom of another tree andbegan going around up that. On themorning of No\ember 2, which wasfoggy, I saw on one of our clothes-posts a Downy Woodpecker which. ,_ .^^ , seemed to be very busy at something. i^P ^B ■W7 i^- ^ went out to see what he was doing, ^ . ^^Sltttgg/lgg^^Httlg^ and found that he had started to drill DOWNY WOODPECKERS NEST-HOLE a holc. I thought that he would give IN POSTPhotographed by H. George Cottrell it Up, the pOSt WaS SO hard. But the. 1-^^^
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