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found with a slightly injured wing. It would hop 

 around among the branches wherever we chose to 

 place it and gave me some nice pictures. 



It would take too much space to tell in detail of all 

 the nests that I discovered all over this, suburban 

 region. The European starling I found nesting in 

 hollow trees, beginning in April. In my yard the 

 purple grackles had homes in the spruces, and it was 

 amusing to watch them. In the woods I found nests 

 of the red-shouldered hawk in tall trees during April, 

 and later came across nests of the wood thrush, veery, 

 and red-eyed vireo. Beating about in bushy pastures 

 or scrub land, I had the pleasure of discovering nests 

 of the blue-winged warbler, chewink, chat, brown 

 thrasher, and chestnut-sided warbler, but somehow 

 the rather numerous prairie warbler eluded me. The 

 bushy swamp land disclosed nests of the Maryland 

 yellow-throat, rose-breasted grosbeak, and yellow 

 warbler. In my rambles I came across two broods 

 of woodcock able to fly, and various other matters 

 of interest, all of which goes to prove that people can 

 find interesting bird-life near home if they will but 

 look for it. 



One species which I had often had in mind to 

 photograph at the nest was the long-billed marsh- 

 wren. These lively, happy little birds, fairly bub- 

 bling over with song, are so ridiculously tame as we 

 meet them among the reeds and cat-tails of the swamp 

 that I believed that they would make one of the very 

 easiest subjects for the camera, as well as one of the 



