310 KNOWING BIRDS THROUGH STORIES 



will be so intent on his hunting that he will not notice 

 you. 



In order to attract these birds^ it is well to fasten pieces 

 of suet or bits of fresh meat on the bark of tree trunks. It 

 wiU not be long until one or another of these little tree 

 hunters will find it, and if you continue to put it out they 

 wiU soon form the habit of coming for it every day. 



This bird remained all winter with us in Southern Iowa, 

 though further north he migrates late in the fall. Of 

 course he is easiest to find in the winter when birds are 

 few and the leaves are off the trees. But if you are 

 sharp-eyed you will fiLnd him even in the summer in the 

 north. 



Most of my readers are interested in birds' nests, and I 

 have described the nest of most of the birds whose stories 

 I have told because often the finding of the nest leads to 

 the identification of the owner. The brown creeper builds 

 in any available place like a split limb, a cleft in the 

 trunk of a tree, or in the opening beneath a piece of loose 

 bark. The five or six eggs are rather imique in that they 

 are a delicate rosy white marked with brown. He is to be 

 foimd at some time of the year almost aU over the United 

 States. 



