BIRDS OF PEASEMARSH 



Flycatcher is the only member of his family to 

 nest in a hollow tree or stump. His cousins, 

 Kingbird and Wood Peewee, build their 

 nests usually on low trees, while his well 

 known cousin, Phoebe, is sure to be found 

 building on the rafter of some old building, or 

 in a niche of some wall, or possibly under an 

 old bridge. The Crested Flycatcher has not 

 consented to live very near to us. It may be 

 that he prefers to leave this hunting ground to 

 his cousins, of whom there are many, or it may 

 be that his tastes are better suited in the wood 

 below the bank. 



The boys who have the advantage of climb- 

 ing trees and watching the bird world in the 

 early morning from some high look-out point 

 in the top of an elm or maple, say that a pair 

 of Crested Flycatchers arrived at the orchard 

 one morning in the spring and appeared much 

 interested in a nest box on the sunny side of an 

 elm, but before they decided to locate they 

 quarrelled with their domineering cousins, 

 the Kingbirds, already in possession of the 

 bank, and departed straightway to the woods. 



The nest box was afterwards appropriated 

 by a pair of Wrens that had failed to find an 

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