HARBINGERS OF SUMMER 



wood pewee loves to sing his song in the 

 shadows of the upper levels of the deep 

 pine wood, so he loves to look down as 

 he sings upon his nest on a limb below, 

 usually twenty or more feet from the 

 ground. 



Such humming birds' nests as I have 

 found have been made of fern wool or the 

 pappus of the blooms of dandelions or 

 other compositse just compacted together 

 and lichen-covered. The wood pewee 

 builds of moss and fine fiber, grass and 

 rootlets, using the lichen covering for the 

 outside, as does the humming bird. It is 

 a beautiful nest, a rustic home which per- 

 fectly fits the dead pine limb on which you 

 often find it, and its surroundings, a nest 

 as rustic as the grove and the bird. 



These two, the tanager and the wood 

 pewee, I know are already picking the 



limbs for their nests and having an eye 

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