How to Attract the Birds 



fortress against enemies. One might suppose that 

 parents capable of so much hard work would do 

 just a little more and provide a comfortable bed for 

 their babies. Not they ! Disgorged fish bones and 

 scales form the prickly cradle. 



The bank swallow, like all his kin, is fond of 

 associating with large numbers of his fellows even 



Photograph by Brownell 



Bank swallow's nest and eggs. (Burrow in the sand opened to show nest) 



at the nesting season. The face of an entire bank 

 where a colony of these graceful birds elect to live 

 will be drilled with holes as if it had been used as a 

 target by soldiers practising with small cannon. To 

 dig at least twenty inches into the sandy bank is no 

 slight task for so small a bird, which still has energy 

 enough remaining to carry twigs, grass and feathers 

 into the end of the tunnel. 



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