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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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same as the bird, and they answered eachother back and forth. Bob White was on a fencepost, — a large brown bird with a stubby tail. On Thanksgiving Day I was up at the farm again,and I saw a shelter which the boy had made for thewinter comfort of Bob White, and other birds whowished to share it. It was tent-like, made out ofcornstalks, the inside filled with pea vines, bean vines,morning-glory vines, and several sheaves of oats.Kitty was watching beside the shelter, — for mice,the boy explained! The new food house was being visited by blue jays,who nibbled at the suet. A smaller feedery on a treehad corn in a tray and suet in a wire pocket. Thisfe^edery was much liked by downies, and small graybirds with white on wings and tail — juncos. Thesej uncos came in flocks of a dozen or more, and twit-tered, Tut, tut, tut, to each other and to us, insociable fashion. They preferred to pick up the scat-terings of chickfeed on the ground, rather than perch 100 HOW TO HAVE BIRD NEIGHBORS
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THE NEW FOOD HOUSE WAS VISITED BY BLUEJAYS on the tray. Both of these food stations were pro-tected with tin sheeting to keep the squirrel from eat-ing the birds food. This visit at the boys home made MORE ABOUT THE BOY 101 me wish more than ever that some day I, too, mightHve on a farm. On that Thanksgiving Day I had quite a surprisedSome dogs came barking from the ravine. Beforethem ran a rabbit just as fast as he could. Theywere the dogs that had so often chased Bunny, andthis rabbit looked so much like Bunny, that I feltsure it was he. Theres my rabbit/ said the boy, as he went tochase the dogs away. I was glad to know thatBunny had such a nice home, and that the boy wasa big brother to him also.

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