How to Attract the Birds 



a deeper blue than heaven among the glistening 

 verdigris tints of his coat. Nor are any telltale 

 feathers worn by the wives of our most brilliant 

 warblers, the blackburnian and the redstart, which 

 must instantly arrest the dullest eye when they flash 



Young grouse confident they are hidden from the camera man 



glowing bits of flame and salmon among the deep 

 shadows of their favourite evergreens. The robin 

 merely wears a deeper red on his breast than his 

 mate. Such accenting of colour at the nesting 

 season in males that are otherwise similar to the 

 females is common when neither bird has much to 

 fear from brilliancy of hue. Male woodpeckers 

 always wear more or less red on their heads, literally 



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