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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 melodious strains delivered in an easy,slow manner, whilst those of the latter areringing, hurried messages of hope that thesinger is determined you shall hear and notforget. The Blackbird builds its nest in ever-greens, thorn bushes, hedges, small trees,holes in old stone walls, on beams in sheds,and almost anywhere and everywhere. It ismade of small twigs, rootlets, straws, moss andmud, and lined with fine dead grass. Fromfour to six dull, bluish-green eggs thicklyspotted with reddish brown and grey are laid. When well-fed the nestlings grow withsurprising quickness, and the parent birdssometimes rear as many as three broods ina season. The male helps the female to find food forthe little ones in the nest, and between de-livering one catch of worms and going insearch of another, he often mounts some talltree and gives vent to his happiness in a fewmellow notes. If any accident should deprive the babyBlackbirds of their mother, the father birdwill rear the little family by himself.
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NIGHTINGALES. The Nightingale THIS wee brown bird, only some sixinches in length, is considered the mostwonderful feathered musician in the world.Its superb song has been praised by writersof all ages and all countries. Many peoplewho ought to know better think that theexquisite notes of the Nightingale are onlyuttered at night. Of course, this is a greatmistake, as the bird frequently sings by day,but its voice is to some extent drowned inthe full chorus of the woods, and is thereforenot noticed by unpractised ears. Arriving in the south of England duringApril, male Nightingales soon make for theirfavourite old haunts in woods, spinneys, gar-dens, thick old hedgerows and other shadyretreats. They are followed by the females afew days later. Curiously enough, this bird, without anyreason known to man, will sometimesutterly desert a favourite wood for years 85 86 Baby Birds at Home and then suddenly return and inhabit itagain. The Nightingale is closely related to therobin, and the two

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