open. This on Pine Hills was no longer safe or 
sure. However, several attempts were made to 
raid the nest, none of which was successful. 
Robin had learned a lesson. He had found that 
willing help was near, and he never hesitated to 
make prompt and vigorous demand in time of 
need. His demands were intelligently made, 
were understood and prompt help rendered. 
A little more than four weeks after their first 
visit to the birch tree robins carried safely away 
their full-fledged little family without having 
had to register a single tragedy. 
On a window lintel under the piazza of a home 
on North Allen street two robins built a nest, 
and without being disturbed safely carried away 
two little families of four each. 
A pair of robins built their nest on a shelving 
cap of one of the supporting pillars of a piazza 
roof on South Pine avenue. 
Another pair built under the eaves of a south- 
east dormer window in the roof of a house on 
South Pine, between Myrtle and Western 
avenues. 
All birds haunt apple trees. In the rear of 
481 Western avenue stands an apple tree in 
which, for eight successive years, robins have 
built nests with varying success, sometimes tak- 
ing away their full number of young, at others 
tragically sacrificing a part or all. 
At Stop 30 on the Schenectady road a robins’ 
nest was built on the lintel of a closet window, 
from which “the life in the nest” was sympa- 
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