14 Birds Every Child Should Know 



cogether you can closely imitate this alarm call. 

 Whom can he be scolding so severely? It is 

 yourself, of course, for without knowing it you 

 have come nearer to his low nest in the beech 

 tree than he thinks quite safe. While sitting, 

 the mother bird is, however, quite tame. A 

 photographer I know placed his camera within 

 four feet of a nest, changed the plates, and 

 clicked the shutter three times for as many 

 pictures without disturbing the gentle sitter who 

 merely winked her eye at each chick. 



Wood thrushes seem to delight in weaving 

 bits of paper or rags into their deep cradles 

 which othen^dse resemble the robins.' A nest 

 in the shrubbery near a bird -lover's home in 

 New Jersey had many bits of newspaper at- 

 tached to its outer walls, but the most con- 

 spicuous strip in front advertised in large letters 

 "A House to be Let or Sold." The original 

 builders happily took the next lease, and another 

 lot of nervous, fidgety baby tenants came out of 

 four light greenish-blue eggs; but, as usual, 

 they moved away to the woods, aften ten days, 

 to join the choir invisible. 



WILSON'S THRUSH 



The veery, as the Wilson's thrush is called 

 in New England, is far more common there than 



