THINGS TO SEE THIS SPRING 



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L There are four nests that you should see this' 

 ; spring: a hummingbird's nest, saddled upon the, 

 f 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\ 

 i the soft sand along the margin of a pond or out *^ 

 j 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- V 

 teresting nest-builders besides the birds. Of all the!' | 

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

 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-v 

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



