BIRD NOTES AFIELD 



have grown less and less frequent. We are at the gates of 

 summer, and as the month draws to a close the birds become 

 more and more settled into the routine of domestic life. Court- 

 ship, wedded life, the home, the young, the education of off- 

 spring and the parting — all in the space of two or three sum- 

 mer months! Verily the birds, with their intense activity and 

 ardent passions, lead faster lives than we, who watch them, 

 can realize. Thus engaged in the preparations for house 

 building, let us leave them, trusting in another month to arrive 

 at the heart of their domestic tribulations and felicities. 



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