80 Twelve Months With 



noisy days of love making and courtship are ended, 

 and there settles down upon woods and fields the 

 peace and quiet of domestic life. 



The more serious business of rearing the family 

 is at hand. No longer is every bush and tree vocal 

 with the music of birds, and if one would see them 

 he must now search them out in their favorite nest- 

 ing haunts, where he will find them often too busy 

 with household cares to give him much attention. 



June is the great household month for the birds. 

 More nests may be found during this month than 

 in any other. To find the birds at this season one 

 must adopt the tactics of the fisherman. He must 

 go where they are. They will no longer come to 

 him at every turn in his morning's walk, but he 

 must find their meadow or woodland homes and 

 visit them there. 



If the habits of the birds as to nesting are known 

 it is not difficult to find them and with them their 

 nests. At this season if a bird is seen regularly to 

 frequent certain bushes, trees or grass spots, of a 

 kind or in a location which it usually chooses for 

 its nest, a little patient, quiet observation will 

 reveal the bird's secret, especially when the nest 

 is being built or the young are being fed, for the 

 birds then make frequent trips to and from the 

 nest. 



Rain fell almost constantly night and day, dur- 

 ing the first week of June this year (1916) with the 

 result that all the rivers and streams were over 

 their banks and all the bottom land whether of 



