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Identifier: babybirdsathomebb00kear (find matches)
Title: Baby birds at home
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Kearton, Richard, 1862-1928
Subjects: Birds -- Behavior Birds -- Juvenile literature
Publisher: London, New York (etc.) Cassell and company, ltd.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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e, and is promptly answered bythe male with a resounding cabow, cabow,cabeck cabecJc, beck, beck. Other notes arealso employed by this gentleman of thehills : cockaway, cockaway, when he seemsvery happy, and cock, cock, cock when heis alarmed. The Red Grouse pairs early, and the nest-ing season is in April, May and June, althougheggs are frequently found earlier and later. The nest is generally well hidden inheather, or ling, occasionally amongst rushes,and the eggs, numbering from five to nine,are of a dirty white ground colour, thicklyblotched and spotted with reddish brown. The baby birds are covered with a thickcoat of down, which is of a light buff colourabove, marked with brown and yellowishbrown underneath. They leave the nestdirectly they are hatched, and if any dangershould suddenly appear on the scene, theyscatter north, south, east and west, and hide,whilst their mother, feigning a broken wing,flaps round and round the intruder until herchicks are safe ; then she flies off.
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SPOTTED FLYCATCHERS. The Spotted Flycatcher THE Spotted Flycatcher is a little brownbird with light under-parts, and darkbrown spots and streaks on the crown of itshead and throat. It is a trifle longer thana house sparrow, but not quite so stoutlybuilt. It is known by several commonnames, each one of which has some referenceto its character and habits. You are sure to see this bird in somewell-wooded part of the country, perched ona gate-post or the dead branch of a tree,and may notice that at intervals it willsuddenly fly off, flutter in the air for amoment or two, and then return to itsoriginal resting-place. The fact is, it hascaught sight of a passing fly and dartedforth to secure it. This bird is only a summer visitor toour country, arriving in the early part ofMay, and returning again to the sunnySouth in September and October. A pair E 25 26 Baby Birds at Home of Spotted Flycatchers will return seasonafter season to inhabit some favourite breed-ing haunt. The nest of this spec

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