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Title: A year with the birds
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Ball, Alice Eliza, 1867- Horsfall, R. Bruce (Robert Bruce), 1869-1948. illus
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: New York City, Gibbs & Van Vleck
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ut I fain would know How you can so reckless and fearless go, Head upward, head downward, all one to you, Zenith and nadir the same in your view? Edith M. Thomas 39 *The Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers Tree-dwelling insects must quiet be,When Downy knocks at their door in a tree;His ears are so sharp, if they stir a mite.He will dig them out for a toothsome bite.And when in winter they all are dead,Youll see his bobbing, red-capped headIn search of the eggs theyve hidden away,In the trimks of the trees, now gaunt and gray. Downy and Hairy look as though They had had a frolic in the snow; Had tumbled about till their breasts were white, And with Jack Frost had a snowball fight, Till their backs were streaked, and flecked were their wings;The grove with their cheerful voices rings!Can they be playing hide-and-seek?Just hear them call, Peek—peek! Peek—peek! A. E. B. ♦Note.—Lower figure—Hairy Woodpecker; middle figure, without redon head—Female Downy; upper figure—Male Downy. 40
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DOWNY AND HAIRY WOODPECKERS The Brown Creeper 41 The Brown Creeper I am Little Brown Creeper—White-flecked and pale gray, With no red on my headLike the woodpeckers gay. They climb up the trees; Nuthatches run down;I circle the trunks— A tiny sprite brown. With my long curving bill Eggs of insects I seek,And I timidly call, Skreek-Skreek, skreek-skreek! You may find me in winter, A visitor shy;In the spring, to my home In the North woods I fly. .i. E. B. 42

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