240 KNOWING BIRDS THROUGH STORIES 



parents feed them readily, and that they are easy to 

 rear. 



My orioles nested in the top of the red maple tree year 

 after year, even after I no longer put out nesting mate- 

 rial for them. Perhaps they never missed my coopera- 

 tion, for in a farmyard there is usually plenty of wool and 

 hairs on poets and trees against which animals have rubbed. 



