My Experience with Von Berlepsch Nesting- boxes 7 



the pair of Chickadees nested again in the cedar by my Ubrary window, 

 while the Screech Owls this year raised three young in the box, type C, in 

 which they roosted last year. The Golden-winged Woodpeckers seemed to 

 like their new houses, type C, and two pairs used them. One of them raised 

 a brood witliout difTiculty, but the other had its first nest broken up by red 

 squirrels, and so moved to another box in which a gray squirrel had just raised 



APPLE-TREE WITH NESTING-BOX USED BY BLUEBIRD 



a litter of young, and, pulling out the lining of this nest, proceeded to raise a 

 brood there. 



This year, 1911, apparently the same pairs of birds are nesting in the same 

 places, though the Bluebirds took a different box for their first brood. Flickers 

 occupied two boxes, and the Chickadees came back as usual; while White- 

 bellied Nuthatches and Great-crested Flycatchers were seen about other boxes. 



The Screech Owls were apparently so disgusted with the disturbance we 

 made last year in photographing their young that they nested elsewhere. 



I have been, of course, very much disappointed in the above showing; and 

 yet, after due consideration, it seems to mc that many of the difficulties 



