THINGS TO SEE THIS SPRING 



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There are four nests that you should see this 

 spring: a hummingbird's nest, saddled upon the 

 horizontal limb of some fruit or forest tree, and 

 looking more like a wart on the limb than a nest ; 

 secondly, the nest, eggs rather, of a turtle buried in 

 the soft sand along the margin of a pond or out 

 in some cultivated field; thirdly, the nest of a sun- 

 fish (pumpkin-seed) in the shallow water close up 



along the sandy shore of the pond; and fourthly, 

 the nest of the red squirrel, made of fine stripped 

 cedar bark, away up in the top of some tall pine 

 tree ! I mean by this that there are many other in- 

 teresting nest-builders besides the birds. Of all the 

 difficult nests to find, the hummingbird's is the most 

 difficult. When you find one, please write to me 

 about it. 



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You should see a "spring peeper," the tiny Pick- 

 ering's frog if you can. The marsh and the mead- 

 ows will be vocal with them, but one of the hardest 



