BIRDS OF PEASEMARSH 



the orchard and this is well, for they will help 

 keep off the Crows and Blackbirds. Until 

 they decided to settle here, the Robins were the 

 only ones plucky enough to attempt to drive 

 out such bird-nesting marauders, which have 

 grown too numerous of late for the welfare of 

 the song birds. Up near the house one hears 

 the insistent note of the Kingbird's cousin, 

 the Phoebe, and from the wooded bank at the 

 foot of the orchard comes the note of the Wood 

 Peewee. The Bank is also the home of Chick- 

 adee and Nuthatch and some of our bright 

 plumaged birds have found it a favorite spot. 

 A Scarlet Tanager seems to have chosen a tree 

 there, while another is often seen in a thicket 

 left for the birds in the centre of the orchard. 

 The Goldfinches are now numerous and add 

 their sweet voices to the chorus, the Purple 

 Finch and the Indigo Bunting are heard in 

 bush or tree and the voice of the Yellow-billed 

 Cuckoo comes now and then from the old Spy 

 trees that edge the hill. 



The Red-headed Woodpecker, not Downy 

 with only the red spot, but the Woodpecker 

 which wears red feathers on his entire head, 

 is heard near by, but his home is in the woods 



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