How to Attract the Birds 



HOUSE HUNTING 



When a young man's fancv Hghtly turns to 

 thoughts ot love, mating is the hirds' one ahsorhing 

 idea. Some of them, having taken partners tor Hte 

 in previous vears, or having found mates on the 



Photoifr.iph I'y C.irlin 



Blue-birds are peering about for some hole in an old hollow tree or fence 



iourney northward, are ready to begin housekeeping 

 as soon as they reach our home grounds. Others, 

 though still in the agonies of jealousy or the bliss 

 of wooing, do not long delay the serious ^\■ork 

 of life. Only the cedar waxwings and goldfinch 

 postpone nesting until midsummer, when their prin- 

 cipal food supplies — choke-cherries and thistle seeds 

 — are most abundant. But even in March, blue- 

 birds are peering about for some hole in an old 

 hollow tree or fence rail to shelter their nest from 



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